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In what ways does crime reporting give us a distorted impression of crime and society? What are the social consequences of that distortion?
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In what ways does crime reporting give us a distorted impression of crime and society? What are the social consequences of that distortion? The debate over crime reporting in the media has become a controversial issue as the pattern of such reporting has itself changed over the last 30 years. Not only because there is an over-reported coverage with a lack of depth in its contents, but also because of its symbolic representation of class, race, gender and patriarchy, which results in a social inequality, stereotype and public anxiety. Some sociologists even argue that crime reporting encourages further crimes by providing information to those potential criminals. In the 1970s, crime reporting was mainly concerned with murder, jewel thefts, and petty crime, but since the late 1980s, an increasingly competitive market that pushed news media to win readers has generated revised editorial ambitions. News media have increasingly become part of the entertainment...
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