Teen Trouble - 2007
-The adult public believe teenagers are a high cause of the percentage of crime, due to the media. Teenagers themselves know that it is much lower - 12%
-News of the World uses bad stories about teenagers rather than good ones as they are there to entertain and they want to sell copies and sell more exciting stories
-Harsh laws make the vast majority of teenagers feel alienated, even though its only the minority that break laws
-Teenage criminals with asbo's are publicised a lot more than other criminals (murderers/rapists) "Generation ASBO."
-The murder of Jamie Bulger lead to a lower criminal conviction age and a more frightened outlook on youths
-Press would pay mods and rockers in the 60s to fight in order to write more exciting articles in papers
over 4 million cctv's placed
- Cultivation theory: proliferation desensitisation- teenagers are viewed as as bad therefore that's how they begin to behave like and cause moral panic
- hypadermic syringe theory- we believe everything that we read and see in the media
- The source of reports come from police reports, and will therefore have a negative outlook on the youths
- Less younger people and more older people therefore they will have a louder voice
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