AQA SOCIOLOGY - Paper 3 - Crime and Deviance: MEDIA, CRIME, MORAL PANICS

This pack contains a 40-slide PowerPoint presentation, a 24-page student booklet, and several other resources to be used in the session.

The lesson covers:

• Starter - student experiences with crime and deviance in media
• Media Representation of Crime and Deviance overview: (1 slide on each of these topics:)
  • Violence and Sex Crimes
  • Media representation of victims
  • Media exaggeration of certain crimes
  • Media exaggeration of risk to victims
  • Crime represented as a series of events
  • Media overplay extraordinary crimes
  • Dramatic Fallacy
  • Soothill & Walby: the Balaclava Rapist / exaggeration of criminal acts

New Values and Coverage

• Mediation of Crime / Crime as a social construct
  • Selection / Organisation /Focus
• Task - students read Sky News article covering the mugging of Sajid Javid and analyse the use of langauge, exaggeration of crime, idelogical underpinning of this media report
  (the entire article is broken down in the PowerPoint (see screenshots for examples)

News Values

Fictional Representations of Crime:

• Surette [1998] – Fictional representations of crime, criminals and victims are the opposite of the official statistics.
• Immitaiton
• Arousal
• Desensitisation
• Transmission of Knowledge
• Stimulating Desire
• PROTRAYING THE POLICE AS INCOMPETENT or CORRUPT
• BY GLAMOURISING OFFENDING

Evaluation of Fictional Representations of Crime
Reading task - students read extract from the ‘Myth of Media Violence’ study and compare the findings to what we have covered in the lesson

FEAR OF CRIME:

• Distortion of crime in the media

RELATIVE DEPRIVATION AND CRIME

• Left Realist view
• Cultural Criminology
• Cultural Criminology with examples
• Global Cyber Crime

The PowerPoint has a short ‘Moral Panics’ lesson attached to it. The slides are not to the same standard as the content listed above and have been included free of charge. I have covered Moral Panics in a more depth and with better resources in a previous Crimes and Deviance lesson pack: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/aqa-sociology-paper-3-conflict-theories-of-crime-and-deviance-12790478

Tasks are included throughout the lesson and student knowledge is tested throughout the session.

The student booklet is to be filled in and completed during the lesson.