Politicians and Media Should Focus on Causes of Crime; Nation Must Get...

Oakland Post;  October 27, 2004 ;     501 words ......populations rising and crime still a problem...After the War On Crime," San Francisco DA...politicians calling on the media to stop sensationalizing crime and to start focusing...problems that cause crime: poverty and injustice...Hayden. He said the media, especially local...Harris ...

Media, white lies and crime

Indianapolis Recorder;  September 10, 1994 ;     671 words ......Indianapolis Recorder 09-10-1994 Media, white lies and crime. Americans probably fear...are played out in the news media. Crime and its somewhat obvious...but yet it has the worst crime you've ever seen. The media has told us that, when you...

YOUTH CRIME NEWS: MEDIA ARE PROBLEM, MEDIA ARE THE SOLUTION.(News)(Column)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  April 10, 2001 ;     700+ words ......Youth, Race and Crime in the News, finds media depictions of crime do not reflect the...rely on the news media for accurate information. When it comes to crime, youth and people...there we have it. Media are the problem...beyond the yellow-crime scene tape and the...

Nick Ross under fire over media's 'big lie' on crime; ACCUSED: Nick Ross...

The Mail on Sunday (London, England);  July 22, 2007 ;     477 words ......afteraccusing the media of distorting crime figures. Speaking...hyping fearsof crime. He said: 'The media have long been...big lie about crime, either thator...healthy and yes the media are in part toblame...politicians and crime policy experts...

The media is not doing enough to expose crime in townships.(News)

Sunday Tribune (South Africa);  March 25, 2007 ;     700+ words ......criticised by the Media Monitoring Project...duty in reporting on crime. Given its extensive...what more could the media do? Mindful of the...part of the broader crime context: crime levels in areas previously...rural reserves. The media could also play a...activities. While the ...

Sage's "Crime, Media, Culture" Scoops International Award for Best New...

PR Newswire Europe;  September 14, 2006 ;     611 words ......production values, have won SAGE journal Crime, Media, Culture the prestigious Association...Armourers' Hall. We are thrilled that Crime, Media, Culture has won this Award, said...attractive font and clear layout. Crime, Media, Culture was launched in April...

Gang rape in Sydney: crime, the media, politics, race and sentencing.

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology;  December 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......racially-motivated crime. The sentences imposed...politicians, the media and the public because...proportion to the crime and effectively criminalised...Black males. Street crime was portrayed by the media as a new danger associated...was inflated by the media (and the ...

Interpreting the First Amendment; Pioneer Press must surrender photos...

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  July 19, 1996 ;     700+ words ......such a civic duty. Vulnerable media Most media attorneys agreed that this...case was one in which the media were vulnerable for two reasons...constitutional rights just as the media do. The journalist actually saw the crime, which is rare. To be asked...thinks that information in ...

TAS: Media blamed for youth crime moral panic

AAP General News (Australia);  February 10, 2000 ;     435 words ......Australia) 02-10-2000 TAS: Media blamed for youth crime moral panic By Don Woolford...other half lives." She said media portrayals suggested crime waves by drug-crazed and...said that contrary to many media reports, youth crime tended to be minor in nature...

Crime's up and it's all the fault of the media

Bristol Evening Post;  July 13, 2002 ;     514 words ...IT'S our fault - us, the media. Crime isn't spiralling out of control. Detections...negative response was mainly from the media, he said. "We continue to get significant...have had seven years of year-on-year crime reduction. Last year we were approximately...

FED: Juvenile crime wave "a media beatup"

AAP General News (Australia);  June 17, 1999 ;     379 words ......06-17-1999 FED: Juvenile crime wave "a media beatup" By Gil Breitkreutz...Also critical of the media's handling of child crime, Senator Vanstone said...day goes by without the media reminding us young people commit crime. You know - the real...

SCOOPED! Media Miss Real Stories on Crime While Chasing Sex, Sleaze, and...

Journalism & Mass Communication Educator;  October 1, 1998 ;     602 words ......1998). SCOOPED! Media Miss Real Stories on Crime While Chasing Sex...illustrate how the news media trivialize and sensationalize crime, how they feed the...uses research on crime, punishment, the...system and the news media to assess a problem...

Award Winning Reporter Stephen Handelman Named Director of John Jay's...

AScribe Law News Service;  May 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......as Director of the new Center on Media, Crime & Justice. According to Jeremy...University. About the Center on Media, Crime and Justice: The Center provides...justice issues. The Center on the Media, Crime and Justice is a partnership of...

Media alter ways people view crime

University Wire;  January 10, 2003 ;     562 words ......this: Increases in crime are deemed more newsworthy...fingers at the news media and say, ' Gosh...has been telling. Crime across the United...the same decade, media coverage of crime has risen hundreds...people behave toward crime is governed by how crime is reported in the ...

MEDIA & CRIME: ; Children may be safer than you've been led to believe

Sunday Gazette-Mail;  April 15, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Violent crime always dominates the news...collective "rubberneck" - the media turn our eyes all at once in...scientific study of news content of crime and youth available - more...research is that news coverage of crime, especially violent crime, is out of proportion to its...