Crime in Contemporary Society - Media Reporting of Crime | A-Level Sociology

welcome to this tutor to you sociology topic video looking at crime in contemporary society focusing on media reporting of crime when examining the media reporting a crime sociologists focus on how media outlets and news agencies select the stories are going to report on one factor involved in the selection of news media is the gender setting

and this is the term given to how the media leads individuals to discuss the new stories that are presented to them therefore what we perceive to be news is often based upon the subjective judgments of editorial teams in the media that decide what is and what isn't in the public interest to know

and this process decides how we the general public perceive levels of crime in the types of crime that are committed in society what we see on the evening news or in newspapers or through media websites is subject to judgments that are called news values galt on the roon developed a series of news values that they suggested

influenced the selection of news including crime by editorial teams in the media now we'll look at these in more detail in a separate video but they do include dramatization the level of drama involved in an incident personification how the event relates to individuals in the audience simplification how easy the story was to communicate

and status examining the status of the victims and the criminals in the case the way in which the media reports crime is therefore a social construction with cohen and young stating that news is manufactured and that the purpose of selecting stories is often to attract viewers rather than inform the public as an example of these news values