The Importance Of Crime In The Media

The accuracy of crime represented in todays media isn’t always as truthful as it may appear on TV, in new papers, or online. The media and how they portray the news is immensely affects crime and criminals and how society sees them.

The media’s main subjective is to make money. Media ownership plays a major part on how media is portrayed as they have the decision on what they want to put on the news or not. In Australia the media is owned by various sources all impacting what we hear about. First association is the government; this ownership connects to what is put in the media and what the public see. In Australia the government owned station are ABC and SBS (H. Hayes 1013CCJ lecture notes, March 12, 2015).

The government and media authorities

In todays society even those who are the most fearful of crime can still be victims of crime. Victims of crime can be anyone, of any race, gender or age. Victims can also be victimized in places they wouldn’t consider being fearful.

Todays victims can be targeted anywhere, with or without reason. Although victims can be anyone it has be found that the most general age of victims are ranged between mid-to-late teens up to people in theirs early 20’s, the same age where most offenders sit. After that with the general rule of older age it has been shown that after mid 20’s the rate of being victimized decreases. This decrease in older aged victims also has the explanation that they are less likely to be in areas where victimization is highly more likable to happen, for example late night clubbing precincts, or in high cluster areas like transport areas such as railways stations (H. Hayes 1013CCJ lecture notes, March 26, 2015). These areas are usually controlled and look over by the use of Crime mapping in these highly active areas where assault happens to identify incident patterns. These examination areas identify which areas of interests may be of high risk of victimization. These areas help those fearful to identify which areas a re safe to go to or not. (H. Hayes 1013CCJ lecture notes, March 26,

For those that live in residential housing some zones are shown to be greater present at risk than others. (H. Hayes 1013CCJ lecture notes, March 26, 2015). The offence of breaking and entering has be recalled to be largely scaled in residential areas, this not saying that all residential areas are at harm but few have shown to show high rates. This may be due to security, accidental not locking of a house and in some cases being victimised by someone the victim trusts. (Davies, Francis, & Greer, 2007). There are findings showing three specific grounds regarding income and victimization. Findings