Exam 6: Youth Deviance and the Media: Mapping Knowledge and the Limits to Certainty

The argument that our understanding of youth crime is policing-sensitive means that the level of police enforcement determines whether the crime is counted.

How were young offenders and the youth criminal justice system viewed by the Canadian media in the period from 1995 to 2003? What effect did this have on public attitudes and arguments for reforming Canadian youth justice legislation?

A study on the reporting of juvenile homicide cases in Chicago newspapers found that ________.

Official statistics record in detail what is known and reported to the police, while self-report and victimization studies are used to fill out those incidents not reported to the police.

What are the implications of the patterns of media coverage in youth crime?

The Uniform Crime Report survey (UCR) is the official source that represents crimes substantiated through police investigation.

In her study of articles on youth crime that appeared in Toronto newspapers, Sprott (1996) found that approximately ________ focused on violent crime.

What is one of the difficulties common to both official statistics and unofficial data?

The purpose of the Uniform Crime Report (UCR) is to ________.

According to the author of Chapter 6, our understanding of youth crime is ________.

Surveys of high school students show that ________ of youth have experienced online bullying.

According to the author of Chapter 6, rather than providing antagonistic knowledge, the media provides complementary knowledge about youth crime and deviance. Do you agree with this argument? Why?

How do news articles provide a platform for "the vilification of young offenders"?

News about crime and deviance, as illustrated in news accounts of the disappearance of sex-workers, can encourage public ________.

________ is the process of analyzing media content to see how crime and criminals are depicted.

In Canada, cannabis possession went from 2,300 cases in 1968 to 44,000 cases in 2006 due primarily to increased law enforcement.

According to the Centre for Disease Control, LGBTQ students are more likely to experience online social media bullying

The articles about youth crime that appeared in the National Post in 1999 were almost all about murders.

For most people, the reality the media creates about youth crime is their reality.

What has been the traditional approach taken by social scientists to the study of crime and the media?