Media Crime Psychology

On the 19th of September 1992, two deceased bodies of missing backpackers Joanne Walters and Caroline Clarke from United Kingdom were found in the Belanglo State Forest, south of Sydney, leading to a subject of an extensive police investigation. Over a year later, another five deceased bodies (Deborah Everist, James Gibson, Simone Schmidl, Gabor Neugebauer and Anja Habschied) were found in the same location as Joanne Walters and Caroline Clarke. However, there was a victim who was being able to escape from Ivan Milat named Paul Onions and he was the key witness of this case. In 1994, he helped the police to arrest Ivan Milat and Ivan Milat were found guilty to charge of seven murders.

Jeffrey Dahmer’s career in crime long impacted the media, and the impact of his crimes would not go unpunished, nor unnoticed. The beginning of Dahmer’s crimes

(2004, March 14). Impact of media on fear of crime? Retrieved February 11, 2018, from http://www.svj.hvu.nl/mediahype/risk4/page2.htm Garden City Police Department. (n.d.). Clutter Family Murders.

Wendy Chan and Dorthy Chunns “Media Representations of Race, Crime and Criminal Justice” provides not only a retelling of violent crimes and how the white media depicts such acts in order to fit the “white is right” narrative but critically engages and analyzes the ways in which these media depictions negatively harm minorities in Canada. This piece is filled with opinions, facts and queries that all engage with the relationship between crime, media representation and intersectionality. The most interesting sections from the reading are; newsworthiness and crime reporting, the symbiotic relationship between police and journalists and the erosion of the line between fact and fiction in relation to the spectacle that is criminal justice. Media

The endless stream of true crime and its consequences have been disastrous for the human race. True crime as a genre has taken a grasp of the world in recent years and refused to let it go. From series such as Dahmer, to Amanda Knox, services have been pumping out true crime content as though there is no other genre. This social adoration can trace its roots back to Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood '', this groundbreaking novel was not the first of its kind, but rather was the first to gain mass attention. Using real life events with a fictionalised narrative, Truman Capote fluffed up the murder of the Clutter family to serial acclaim.

Over time many researchers with social science backgrounds have tried to classify serial killer into different categories. There are multiple typologies for serial killers throughout most literature on serial killers. Some include the Deitz typology, the Holmes typology, the Rappaport typology, the FBI’s organized and disorganized typology. Most of the articles used for this paper highlighted the Holmes typology and the FBI’s organized and disorganized classification. The Holmes typology separates serial killers into four different categories.

Within recent years crime television has made a large impact on the United States. We have many television shows dedicated to showing past crimes, especially murder cases. Along with those television shows, we have many movies to depict major crimes. Hollywood has taken many court cases and created intriguing movies out of them. While creating these movies can be looked at as informative, it can also change the way society views these cases.

As sociologists Thornton is one of many criminologist who have recognised that from 1960s onwards, society has endured major change. According to her on the study of “the social logical of subculture capital”, Thornton and McRobbie argue that Cohen’s view of moral panics has changed in societies prospective and therefore needs updating as it does not relate to the problems society is facing. The world is now more technologized media has greater plurality of views and individuals perception. Thornton and McRobbie (1995) continue o say this makes it ‘impossible to rely on the old models with their stages and cycles, universal media, monolithic societal or hegemonic reactions’. Miller and kitzinger (1998: 216) correspond that the concept of

This paper examines the media and its effect on crime and the criminal justice system. The media 's negative influence often makes an impact in the justice system. To see the type of influence the media has on the justice system, let 's examine different cases. Media involvement can change the outcome of a case. The power of the media in the system justice is mostly negative.

The two most popular sociological theories that offer an explanation as to why certain types of people are more likely to be victims of crimes is the Lifestyle Theory (the belief that certain leisure-time and other activities increase the chances of becoming a crime victim) and the Routine Activities Theory (the view that an individual’s daily activities can affect his or her chances of becoming a crime victim). Although these theories differ slightly in specific application, both theories generally assert that “the habits, lifestyles, and behavioral patterns of potential crime victims enhance their contact with offenders and thereby increase the chances that crimes will occur” (Miethe and Meier 1990:244). Research is supportive of either theory as an explanation of certain people being more likely to be victim

Cultural criminology’s “framework is concerned with meaning, power and existential accounts of crime and punishment and control” (Hayward, 2016:300). Which allows cultural criminologist to study crime in the relation to culture and its impact on criminality. Cultural criminology believes it is always “necessary to state and restate what crime is, if nothing else a human activity” (Presdee, 2004:276). The commodification of culture relates to Cultural Criminology in the sense of the many faucets of crime and deviance and what is getting exploited through the media to the public. Commodification of crime is becoming more prevalent as time goes on as the media has such a large influence on society.

Criminology Case Study: Meredith Kercher Name Academic Institution Author Note Class Professor Date TABLE OFCONTENTS1 CASE/OFFENDER 3 OFFENSE/CRIME 4 MOTIVATIONS/BACKGROUND 4 THEORY 5 VICTIMS 6 COSTS 7 ADJUDICATION/DISPOSITION (PROSECUTION/SENTENCING) 7 CONCLUSION 8 REFERENCES 10 Criminology Case Study: Meredith Kercher

Samantha Sedillo English 102 Professor Creel 24 February 2023 True Crime Podcasts: What Is the Appeal? With the increasing viewership of crime media and podcasts, there is a lot of controversy surrounding the topic. In the article, ‘Undisclosed Information—Serial Is My Favorite Murder: Examining Motivations in the True Crime Podcast Audience’ by Keli Boling she explains that, “Fascination with true crime has been prevalent for decades (Durham, Elrod, & Kinkade, 1995). Marrying the ability to present facts from the real world in a fictional-like narrative format, true crime stories naturally blur the line between news and entertainment”(page 92).

This essay will discuss crime as both a social problem and a sociological problem. Crime is seen as a typical function of society. Crime doesn’t happen without society. It is created and determined by the surrounding society. According to the CSO, the number of dangerous and negligent acts committed between the years of 2008 and 2012 rose from 238’000 in 2008 to 257’000 in 2012.

As television watching increased severely over the past half-century, it also became more violent. In 1969 the National Commission on the causes and prevention of violence indicated that ‘The preponderance of the available research evidence strongly suggests…that violence in television programs can and does have adverse effects upon audiences’ (cited in Berkowitz, 1993, p.199.) Since that time, television violence has increased largely. Research reports in 1970, published that children has seen over 11,000 murders on television by the age of 14. More recent researches and reports have demonstrated that now, the average child sees more than 100,000 violent crimes on television every year and about 200,000 crimes when they reach their teens.