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15 cards from this deck
Socially constructed, not objective
Criteria journalists use to decide if story is newsworthy
Negativity attracts audiences - bad news sells
Fear of crime, especially in vulnerable groups
Media suggests all ages involved; young people actually dominate
Middle-class shown as victims; working-class areas have more crime
Police shown as more effective than they actually are
Media emphasises violent & extraordinary crimes unrealistically
Direct correlation between media violence & real-life behaviour
Long exposure to violence makes people accept it as normal
S. Cohen (1972)
Media labelling escalates deviance through moral panic process
Groups demonised by media using symbolic language
During times of moral crisis & major social change
Moral panics harder to sustain with 24-hr news & active audiences
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