Analysis of Crime Representation in Contemporary Media Forms

This essay examines the dominant representation of crime in contemporary media, focusing on how it shapes public perception and understanding. The essay begins by introducing the topic, highlighting how media often exaggerates the threat of crime and influences public fear. The main body delves into the various sources of crime information, including newspapers, radio, and the internet, emphasizing how media outlets influence the public's understanding of crime. It explores the impact of media in portraying crime, discussing how certain crimes are over-reported and how media coverage can create negative societal impacts. The essay also explores the social construction of crime in the media, and how the media shapes the reality of crime through powerful institutions. The essay concludes by summarizing the documentation and highlighting the impact of media in changing crime stories.

ESSAY
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INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5
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INTRODUCTION
Media representation tends to create inaccurate perception of crime among the majority of
individuals. This exaggerate threat and also unnecessarily enhance the pubic fear of crime
(Greer, 2019). Henceforth, this can be stated that media can cause crime and this deviance
through labelling. Media is one of source that serves public source of crime information. The
present report will be based on topic such as dominant representation of crime in today’s media
and how this changes has over time.
MAIN BODY
Overview
Nowadays, each people consume the new information or data from various authenticate
sources. It may include radio, newspaper, internet but few are aware about the reporting of new
stories. In this way, it can easily identifying the Crime stories which has been representing by
media to people (Greer, 2019). The most critical attention is that when how crime is reported
through news channel. In order to influence people for building own understanding towards
crime within society. Furthermore, it ensure that media cover the entire activities and also
consider both positive and negative aspects of crime. However, The Media enabling the instant
picture that can be obtained directly and indirectly. As per evidence, it mainly involving the
more powerful people whether they are victim or not. In order to identify the correlation between
fear of crime and consumption of media. It clearly shown the picture of situation whereas
consider social construct which indicating the reality.
Dominant presentation of crime in today media and how this has changed.
Media plays the big role inof influenceinfluencingr in today’s society. zzMedia is thje
source of knowing more information, Without without media people cannot be aware about the
issues that are taking place in society and how the number crimes are increasing day by day.
Thus, study of media influences on crime has enhanced substantially throughout the years.
Therefore, the arrival and growth of film, television and computer technologies have served to
intensify anxieties of public but there are few crime waves that are genuinely new phenomena
and this also reflected despite the media efforts (Baranauskas, 2020). Media and crime are
interlinked to each other. Therefore, some of the crimes are often over reported on TV, print and
on online platform in wrongful manner., that shows negative picture of society sometimes. It
creates the harsh impact over the society. These all includes violent crimes, crime by young
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people. In addition to this, the media serves as one of primary public source of crime
information. Therefore, media plays the significant role in agenda setting in terms to crime and
deviance. It has become one of the significant part of our daily life. However, media plays the
dominant role in the process of learning about the happening of crime. Media is big influencer as
they play potential role in shape personalities, change the way we perceive and understanding the
world in reality aspect. Therefore, this can be stated that it has been found out that
society has become more violent with the advent of the modern media industry.
However, the arrival and growth of film, television and, latterly, computer
technologies, have served to intensify public anxieties. Furthermore, media works as to
reporting a crime or covering a trial tend that put the major focus on the personal
aspects by going into detail about subjective emotional experiences of the victims.
Thus it can be concluded that media plays significant role in determining the strength
of the relationship among the institutions of justice and the public perception of them.
Social construction of crime in media
The reality is based on the social construction which provide the better way to dominant
value in the society. In particularly, news media constitutes in the area for powerful institution of
community, society (Baranauskas, 2020). On the other hand, medial system is to give privilege
in context of ideological which easily hold the power, exponents of politics establishment and
also representative the major capitalist economic interest. Thus, it begun when decided to
understand cover stories of crime and continuous identifying lifestyle of people. Another level
that has been suggested to review the construct of own reality. In order to analyse for
understanding and interpreting news. Furthermore, it is also increasing the field of
communication for sharing the information about particular crime stores. It may be covered the
wide range of crime stories through various media channels.
CONCLUSION
From above discussion, it has summarised about the documentation that mainly representing
the crime stories by using media channel. It can be developing or construct the various elements
which mainly reporting of crime through local television and newspaper. As per analysis, it can
be identified that Social construction is dominant which mainly representing the crime in current
scenario. Furthermore, it also identified that media has change the impact on the crime stories
which representing an efficient manner.
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REFERENCES
Book and Journals
Baranauskas, A.J., 2020. Exploring the social construction of crime by neighborhood: News
coverage of crime in Boston. Sociological Focus. pp.1-21.
Greer, C. ed., 2019. Crime and media: A reader. Routledge.
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