Exam 1: The Media and Crime
What is the difference between right-wing and left-wing views?
Responses should include:
-Right-wing views tend to support private wealth, economic competition and personal freedom, while often opposing choice in areas like abortion and euthanasia from a moral or religious perspective.
-Left-wing views tend to support greater collective ownership or regulation of economic institutions, greater equality through the redistribution of wealth, and personal choice on moral issues.
Discuss the case of the Fitzgerald Commission of Inquiry in Queensland.
Students should outline the case, including the journalist investigation of serving police officers, articles published in The Courier Mail, the Four Corners television program, and the most far-fetched reforms of the system of policing and government in the state's history.
What are some recent examples in Australia of ways the media can expose crime and generate positive change in response to victimisation?
Students could discuss the Royal Commission into the Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (2017), and the Banking Royal Commission (2018).Students should describe of these.
The _______ refers to instruments of communication related to news and entertainment.
Agenda setting is deciding which issues receive attention and how different perspectives on issues are portrayed.
What is the term for something which is simplistic and misleading but are commonly held views about current topics of interest?
Approximately 20% of the Australian population relies on commercial television, radio, and newspapers for their daily source of news.
Discuss the comparison of how victims and offenders are portrayed on shows such as Law & Order compared to those in actuality.
List and describe the criteria regarding newsworthiness or news values.
Why are violent crimes of more concern to the public than white collar crimes or corporate crimes?
Right-to-information legislation is essential to ensure a fair process for information requests to governments and to prevent prosecution of insiders who make public interest disclosures to the media.
The online environment is extremely detrimental for information about crime and responses to crime by criminal justice agencies.
Whistleblower protection legislation is detrimental to a fair process for information requests to governments and to prevent prosecution of insiders who make public interest disclosures to the media.
What is a 'moral panic'? Use examples to show how moral panics occur.
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