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Question: The media is responsible for the way the public interpret, ‘the crime problem.’ Discuss.
Answer: This essay highlights the meaning of the crime statistics, showing how the collection, classification and representation of criminal statistics remains a highly contested issue, affecting how we view and react to both crime and the criminal justice system. This essay will show how the media’s portrayal and representation of the crime figure, can affect the public’s understanding of the “crime problem”, resulting in a moral panic and fear of crime, and real consequences for people’s lives....(short extract)
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- Subject: Criminology
- Course: D315
- Level: Degree
- Year: 2nd/3rd
- Mark: 77%
- Words: 2453
- Date submitted: July 02, 2009
- Date written: November, 2007
- References: Yes
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 1738
