Tuesday, October 23, 2007

hs811 media & crime

Often blamed for behaviour, violence [Difficult to determine]

1)Report of crime by media
a)Content analysis
Column width/height
Objective

b)Violence
More attention to violence by popular[TNP] than quality media[STime]

c)All media
Over report violence over property
Media : 8V to 2P
Stats : 9P to 1V

d)Older, more violence Offender
Correct on Age : disproportionate focus on delinquents in the official statistics
Incorrect on violence

e)Unreported family violence & gender pattern

f)White-collar crime obscured from view
In finanical section instead of front page

Crime,as fiction, as entertainment
Eg. Killing "bad guy" is okay

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