Critical Analysis of Crime and Media

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1.0.    Title: Romer D, Jamieson. K & Aday. S.2003, Television, News and the Cultivation of Fear of Crime, Journal of Communication. 53.1.88-104

2.0.    Topic: Media and Crime

3.0.    Context:  The Connection of Crime and Media

4.0.     Structure: The format of the Article

5.0.     Style: The Author’s expression in the article

6.0.    Argument or Claims: The Author’s argument on Crime and Media

7.0.    Evidence: Relevant sources and examples utilized by the author

8.0.    Evaluation:  the strengths and weaknesses of the article

9.0.    Conclusion. The conclusion drawn by this analysis

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Romer D, Jamieson.K & Aday. S.2003, Television, News and the Cultivation of Fear of Crime, Journal of Communication. 53.1.88-104

Topic: Media and Crime

The article focuses on the theme of crime and media. The article scrutinizes the media influence on fear of crime, apparent police efficiency and corrective attitudes. The author scrutinizes the impact of crime on public questions and knowledge on whether the polling information represents the crime in the United States or the media; television accounts for crime.

Context: The Connection of Crime and Media

It forms the context of this article whereby various contexts have been used  to explain the connection of crime and media. The articles show the increasing insecurity because of an increase in fear of crime. The media have the responsibilities of the people daily undertaking in regards to crime through what the people view. For example, the impact of what form of crime that people view on the television. The media become accountable for such cases. This article has been utilized and published in multiple form of scholarly articles that concerns numerous fields, which involves the connection between communication and media, psychological studies, and law.

Format or the Structure of this article

Considering that this article is in the group of scholarly articles the format of the article in more non-personal and impartial and also because it contain the analysis and collection of data in a systematic process. The author effort to coax the audience into taking a side of the claim established through presenting the outcomes of the study in a methodical manner. The articles begin with an introduction that shows the author’s claim and a foundation of the claims in the central theme of the articles supported by various research. For example, a study by Gallup, (1994), on crime. ( Reamer, 2003. P.88). The article includes subheading that introduces the contents of that part. The significance of the subheading is that they back-up the argument presented by the authors’.  The primary discussion presented by the subheading include the cultivation theory, the social comparison hypothesis and the tests of television presentations influence. In every subheading, there are data gathered to support the main theme. The article includes a methodology part that shows the main studies followed by three case studies. The part also consists of bar graph that shows the data reported by different individuals for fear of walking in neighborhoods within the media area as well as the variation between the areas with high and low crime coverage and reported crime acts. There is a general discussion part that examines the outcomes of the research and their effects on the argument presented in the introduction part and the evidence gathered in each research and how the findings back-up the argument. The article also incorporates a part that gives optional evidence that either prove or disproves the argument presented in the subheading parts. The article commence using several paragraphs that summarize the outcomes of the study and how it is interpreted in the context of the claims put forward in the introduction part. The coverage of crime may not only condition the viewer’s fear, but they also affect the perceptions of regions where crime is possible to happen and the individuals stereotypes as typical perpetrators Romer, 2003.P.101).

Argument or Claims: The Author expression in the Article

This authors’ expression can be explained through examining the style of the article. The article is structured and formatted in a formulaic manner whereby the style look likes the style utilized in other articles of similar theme and fields. The author writing is cultured and educated and asserting an expressive comprehension of the role arguments and themes. Though the style of writing is not loaded with thematic terminology, the authors do not try to concern the audience and request their opinion, but force them to accept their opinions. The writing style is extremely scientific, utilizing charts and data that are objected at an audience of like-minded persons in this field. The writing style is representative of other studies in this field that have a tendency to examine the concepts and thoughts of the authors and not to give any counter thoughts that might open the claims to debate. However, the style seems to be prejudicial and deranged.

Claims: The Author's argument on Crime and Media

The authors’ claims that the media; television are accountable for spreading a methodical fear of crime because of their presentation of violent crime and the reporting of crime by the people. They claim that despite the decreasing trends in violent crime, the substantial exposure to violent programs in the television is a by-product of the cultivation theory. It is the theory that asserts that television presents a community much more violent than the one the community dwell in. The authors analyze the outcomes of the findings to test the theories, whereby they revealed that the cultivation theory can shape the perceptions of the viewers in a consequential manner. The authors backed-up their argument through three case studies and analyzing the data by drawing the bar graphs. Moreover, the authors give a part consisting of the variables and other descriptions to the central theme so as to back-up the theories that back-up their argument.

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