Media representations of crime
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Crimes in the news
Around 30% of British news covers crime (Williams & Dickinson, 1993).
Felson
Age fallacy = Portraying criminals/victims as older and more middle-class
Dramatic fallacy = Overplaying unusual/extraordinary crimes
News values
Immediacy
Dramatisation
Personalisation
Higher-status persons/celebrities
Simplification
Novelty/unexpectedness
Risk
Violence
Fictional representation
Fiction often shows the opposite of official statistics but is similar to news coverage.
Under-represented: property crime.
Over-represented: violence, drugs, and sex crimes.
Trends in fictional crime
Reality shows often feature young, non-White, underclass offenders.
Police increasingly shown as corrupt, brutal, and less successful.
Victims are more central – audiences are encouraged to identify with their suffering, while police are portrayed as avengers.
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