Deck 10: Reconceptualizing the Relationship Between Media and Crime

Question 1

Cohen's documentary sources included which of the following?

A) national and local press cuttings
B) Hansard reports
C) tape recordings
D) all of these

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Which of the following is considered a secondary source?

A) questionnaires
B) interviews
C) informal discussions
D) tape recordings

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Which of the following are considered potential obstacles to carrying our research in closed settings?

A) access
B) interviews
C) treading ethical lines
D) all of these

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Groundbreaking studies were conducted in newsrooms where crime correspondents work in all of the following decades except:

A) 1960s.
B) 1970s.
C) 1980s.
D) 1990s.

Question 5

Which of the following sources are considered popular?

A) large-scale mail surveys
B) in-person surveys
C) small-scale online surveys
D) small-scale mail surveys

Question 6

______ is classified as a readable text.

A) Newspapers
B) Social media exchanges
C) TV news bulletins
D) All of these

Question 7

Another common practice, especially in the local and regional press, is to publish crime stories, often taken from court reports, on ______ to give the impression of a crime wave.

A) one page
B) two pages
C) three pages
D) an entire newspaper spread

Question 8

______ was a drug that British people may have known little about, beyond the fact that self-confessed user Andre Agassi was seemingly able to continue his professional career.

A) Marijuana
B) Crystal meth
C) Heroin
D) Prescription painkillers, such as Oxycodone

Question 9

______ has a physicality to them.

A) Online blogs
B) Social media posts
C) Television news bulletins
D) Newspapers

Question 10

______ can be difficult to get hold of, especially if your desired sample is very large or goes back several years/decades.

A) Social media posts
B) Newspapers
C) TV news bulletins
D) Online blogs

Question 11

A U.S. survey found that ______% of Americans go online for news.

A) 10
B) 27
C) 37
D) 40

Question 12

A U.S. survey found that ______% of Americans read a print newspaper.

A) 17
B) 27
C) 37
D) 40

Question 13

A recall of millions of cars by ______ in 2009 and 2010 after mechanical defects reportedly caused severe injury and the deaths of 52 people in the United States.

A) Toyota
B) Ford
C) Dodge
D) Mercedes

Question 14

Bernard Madoff who defrauded thousands of investors was given a maximum prison sentence of ______ years.

A) 10
B) 100
C) 150
D) 200

Question 15

Bernard Madoff defraudment cost investors a total of ______ billion.

A) 15
B) 30
C) 50
D) 65

Question 16

Financiers were regarded as ______.

A) folk devils
B) vampires
C) goblins
D) gremlins

Question 17

This text was originally published in the United Kingdom in ______.

A) 2000
B) 2004
C) 2008
D) 2012

Question 18

Some scholars do not like quantitative methods because they believe that those methodologies are designed explicitly to exclude ______ from the process of research.

A) ambiguity
B) surprise
C) human error
D) all of these

Question 19

According to scholar Greer, printed "news" becomes all of the following except:

A) decontextualized.
B) shorn of structure.
C) connected from defining images and surrounding.
D) short of style.

Question 20

Tammy Ayres and Yvonne Jewkes conducted a small-scale analysis of press coverage in ______ in 2012.

A) the United Kingdom
B) Russia
C) France
D) Denmark

Question 21

LexisNexis is a resource that allows researchers to:

A) interact with journalists.
B) read networking sites and blogs.
C) access readable text only.
D) access video clips.

Question 22

Which of the following was the first taken by Ayres and Jewkes in their study?

A) keyword search
B) online search
C) page analysis
D) request for hard copies

Question 23

As of 2011, national newspapers published in the United Kingdom totaled to:

A) 231.
B) 537.
C) 821.
D) 1,091.

Question 24

Which of the following are considered not non-new stories?

A) TV guides
B) book reviews
C) bulletins
D) quizzes

Question 25

Tammy Ayres and Yvonne Jewkes (2012) study found that ______ of the sources were accompanied by the faces of crystal meth users.

A) 15%
B) 27%
C) 38%
D) 51%

Question 26

The model of moral panics has proved impressively enduring and many followers have sought to emulate it.

Question 27

The moral panic thesis is frequently misrepresented or cannibalized in contemporary scholarship.

Question 28

Focus groups and semi-structured interviews are not commonly undertaken because they are expensive and relatively difficult to organize.

Question 29

LexisNexis is a research tool.

Question 30

Images and composition are important elements to any news story.

Question 31

Angel and Devil are considered unitary oppositions.

Question 32

"Faces of drugs," as they were described, were used as a driver for broader drugs legislation and policy.

Question 33

It is estimated that more people now get their news online than from old-fashioned newspapers.

Question 34

The model of moral panics is more easily understood than many media theories; it is more tangible than some subjects.

Question 35

The model of moral panics is relatively easy to research.

Question 36

Yet even the most extreme crime, arson, is subject to differing levels of interest.

Question 37

There are many "outsiders"-"the threatening outcast, the fearsome stranger, the excluded and the embittered"

Question 38

Law can be impartial and objective in cases which generate feverish media and public debate.

Question 39

The media is a window on the world.

Question 40

The relationship between media and audience in defining the parameters of social (in)tolerance and social control is very simple.

Question 41

Jewkes (2010) has explored the kinds of research that can be undertaken into the media-crime nexus by breaking the field into four distinct parts. What are the four distinct parts?

Question 42

Identify some inexpensive ways to conduct research. Provide examples of a few databases and archival websites.

Question 43

What methodological approach would you use to research media and crime?

Question 44

What is a "wound culture?"

Question 45

What are some of the criticisms of using online databases that include only text?