Media and crime

True or False: According to Marxists, the media's reporting of crime reflects the ideology of the ruling class.

• True
• False

What perspective suggests that the media reinforces the stereotyping and oppression of women in crime reporting?

• Functionalism
• Marxism
• Feminism

According to Postman, what term describes the mixture of entertainment and sensationalism in media coverage of crime?

• Infotainment
• Moral panic
• Symbolisation

What perspective views the media as a moral entrepreneur that determines who is deviant and who is not?

• Functionalism
• Marxism
• Interpretivism

True or False: The hypodermic syringe model proposes that media audiences are passive recipients of media messages.

• True
• False

What term describes an instance of public anxiety or alarm in response to a problem seen as threatening moral standards of society?

• Moral panic
• Crime cycle
• Reflexivity

According to missing white woman syndrome, what type of victim is more likely to make the news cycle or receive media attention?

• White middle class woman
• Ethnic minority woman
• Young men

True or False: McRobbie and Thornton argue that moral panics have become more frequent in society.

• True
• False

What is the first step in the fear of crime cycle caused by the media?

• Generates more fear of crime
• Spending more time at home
• Consume more media
• Media causes a fear of being a victim of crime