media -moral deviancy + amplification

7th stage of deviency amplification spiral

Media profits from the whole spiral and continues to report on the deviance

Baudrillard's hyperreality

This theory suggests that the media do not represent reality but actively create it.
In this way, most people's experience of crime is through the lens of the media rather than personal experience.

what did ONS of 2015 show?

the majority of people base their knowledge of crime and the criminal justice system on the media
(including crime fiction and dramas),
rather than their own direct experience.

what did ONS of 2016 show?

60% of adults thought that crime in England and Wales had risen in the previous year of 2016 when in fact recorded crime was down by 6%

Deviancy

Deviation from the normal/typical/standard, deviant norms, values, behaviour.
Any behaviour that violates social norms, and is severe enough that it receives disapproval from the majority of society

Deviancy Amplification

Refers to the way the media may actually create or make worse the very deviance they condemn by their exaggerated, sensationalised, and distorted reporting of events and their presence at them.

Moral Panic

Refers to a wave of public concern about some exaggerated or imaginary threat to society, stirred up by overblown and sensationalist reporting in the media.

how many stages is there in the deviancy amplification spiral?

7

1st stage of deviency amplification spiral

deviant act is committed

who introduced the concept of moral panic

Cohen (1972)

Mods and Rockers

Two conflicting British youth subcultures of the early to mid 60's. Media coverage of mods and rockers fighting in 1964 sparked a moral panic about british youths, and the two groups became labeled as folk devils.