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This essay will look at the media’s representation of the police and examine the ways in which they are portrayed to the British public, be it either positively or negatively.Focusing
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'Choose one of the symbolic groups or settings from the lecture course ( police, gangsters etc). How and why are they misrepresented in popular culture, with reference to writers and/or themes discussed in the module.' (1500 words) The mass media is, for many, the main source of information about crime and criminal justice and the media 'can play a critical role by exposing corruption and the harmful activities of the powerful and of agencies of control such as the police'. (Croall, 2005) This essay will look at the media's representation of the police and examine the ways in which they are portrayed to the British public, be it either positively or negatively. Focusing largely on television as the main source, it will also take into account small pieces of radio and literature evidence from the past fifty years to see how the portrayal of the police by the media has changed and how...
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