Mass Media and Crime:

• Know the patterns of media representations of crime and how these differ from the picture of crime in official statistics
• Understand and be able to evaluate the different views about the media as a cause of crime and fear of crime
• Evaluate the views of the media's role in the creation of moral panics
• Understand the relationship between the  new information media and crime and social control

 

Examine the ways in which the media stimulate moral panics and create folk devils (12 marks)