1. Media Coverage of Crime
This trades on and reinforces a moral panic about the link between youths and crime, and the attention these youth crimes receive might be out of proportion with reality. ... The media continuously push the idea that youth crime is getting out of control and that there is a need for fear of this type of crime. ... The media has a tendency to portray youth crimes as getting out of control which they often refer to as moral panics. ... Moral panics usually involve youth because they are easily susceptible to antisocial influences such as drug use (Tanner, 2001: 12). ... In Canada, the rate of y...
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