Assess the extent to which the mass media cause the amplification of deviance.

... Assess the extent to which the mass media cause the amplification of deviance. Deviance amplification can be approached from a number of sociological perspectives, although it is particularly associated with the interactionalist perspective. I can mean one or more of the following:> More deviant acts are being committed> More serious acts are being committed> People think there is more crime> People have an increased fear of crime The First two explanations refer more to deviance and the second two refer more to the social reaction to deviance, which can cause more deviance and/or more social reaction which is almost like a chain reaction. A combination of these can produce a real or perceived crime wave. Crime waves are real or imagined increases in the rate of a particular crime. They also may cause a moral panic. S. Cohen first described how 'Folk Devils and Moral panics' could be created and amplified by the

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