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What else did the media report on to make the crime wave seem more real or serious?

How Do Themes Impact Crime Waves?

They reported on the communities response to the "problem", such as interviewing court officials, police officers, and creating units like the Senior Citizens Robbery Unit from the Article.

Themes come from what the police report and what other media talks about. The media copies each other, and the police copy the media. The police also are street workers so they only can report on street crimes. This can give a false sense of what type of crime is high.

The Social Construction Of Reality

How is the media's description of an incident make a crime more freighting to a citizen?

What the creates reality and the truth is dependent on society. It is created, learned, agreed upon, and changed.

They depersonalize it. They mention the somewhat public location. They make a victim more vulnerable (elderly woman), and the criminal foreign (17 year old male).

Brief Summary

During the 1970's

7 week crime wave

elderly were mugged, raped and murdered. The

elderly claimed to be more afraid

Researches talked with Police and local news such as the Wave Daily News and New York Post to see what caused this crime wave and what made them report on certain topics

They found that the press reported material based upon what other news was reporting about. They also found that the police gave the media reports on incidents if they thought it would make a good story. They figured what was interesting to the media based on what they report on. Researchers discovered that a theme came about if an certain incident like elderly crime was reported to the police and the media wrote about it numerous times, and it then became a wave.

Crime Waves As Ideology

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