Media Representations and Constructions of Crime, Offenders and Victims : Serbian Cas
Апстракт
By using a content analysis, the author attempts to explore the extent to which the prevailing
media portrayals of crime, offenders and victims distract from factuality of crime in Serbia.
It is argued that crime news is often distorted with the aim to acquire greater “news value”,
or to induce moral panic over specific categories of offenders. The news is commonly
distorted in tabloid press through rather simple albeit well approved means: by exaggerating
the prevalence and dangers of specific forms of crime, portraying extensively certain
uncommon criminal events, causal oversimplification, as well as by over/under/missrepresenting specific categories of perpetrators and victims. Particular consideration is given
to the problems of selective and culturally sensitive attributions of responsibility for crime
and victim blaming, as well as to media portraying of youth violence aiming to induce moral
panic over youth crime and to call forth the harsher response toward juvenile o...ffenders
Кључне речи:
media coverage of crime / representations of offenders / representations of crime victims / SerbiaИзвор:
Criminal justice and security in Central and Eastern Europe [Elektronski izvor] : from common sense to evidence-based policy-making : conference proceedings / editors Gorazd Meško ... [et al.], 2018, 59-73Издавач:
- Maribor : University of Maribor Press