1. Topic 7: Crime and the Media: THE MEDIA AS A CAUSE OF CRIME
Some of the ways in which the media might generate crime include:
Write any examples you can think of below under each heading
1 IMITATION – by providing deviant role models, copycat behaviour results
2 AROUSAL – through viewing violent or sexual imagery
3 DESENSITISATION e.g. through repeated viewing of violence
4 BY TRANSMITTING KNOWLEDGE of criminal techniques e.g. how to hot wire cars
5 AS A TARGET FOR CRIME e.g. Antiques Roadshow, highlighting wealthy neighbourhoods...
6 BY STIMULATING DESIRES – for goods that people cannot afford e.g. advertising
7 BY PORTRAYING THE POLICE AS INCOMPETENT – easy to fool, little chance of getting
caught
8 BY GLAMOURISING OFFENDING
9 BY GENERATING MORAL PANICS (public outcries) which lead to a DEVIANCY
AMPLIFICATION SPIRAL
Write any other ways you think that the mass media can generate crime and deviance
below: