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Media Representations of Organized Crime

 

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             In contrast, the media represents organized criminal groups based on race, class and gender in the sense the groups usually consist of Italian men who would be considered financially poor if they did not have the money that they make from their illegal activities. Words and images about organized crime are manipulated through the media so that any scientific truth gets lost or disappears in the ways in which we think about organized crime and criminal groups (Lyman and Potter, 2015, p. 56). The concept of organized crime has become more prevalent in print media as the years go on, considering that New York Time for example only had 5-11 articles on organized crime during the 1950s, but that number rose to 63 in 1963 and 148 in 1967 (Lyman and Potter, 2015, p. 56-56). This shows how organized crime is a more recent phenomenon that has been getting greater attention in the recent decades. Lyman and Potter (2015) explain that there is such a large volume of information that is available to the public through fiction and non-fiction that it becomes challenging to depict what is valid from what is invalid (p. 57). .
             Producers of media feed the public's desires of showing them the things that they enjoy watching. The media exposes the public to sensational crimes including organized crime, which shows that the media plays a role in the social construction and discourses of crime (Lombardo, 2010, p. 264). Lyman and Potter (2015) argue that the media changes the public's social reality of organized crime, and in turn, the producers provide us with images and words that we are familiar with and are comfortable with (p. 57). For example, when looking at the movie "The Godfather," a large portion of consumers (especially male teenagers and young adults) really enjoyed the movie and the connotations that were attached to organized crime such as Italian mafias, weapons, drugs, etc. After the positive feedback that was expressed by consumers, the producers decided to provide the consumers with a second and third part to the movie that reinforces stereotypes of organized crimes and criminals.


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