"Media images help shape our view of the world and our deepest values; what we consider good or bad, positive or negative, moral or evil" (Butler Alison, 2015). The extent of influence depends, to some degree, on characteristics of the different types of mediums (Weitzer and Kubrin 2004). Jeffres (1986) defines a medium as "any device that carries messages between peoplebut what makes a medium a mass medium is its ability to carry messages not just from one person to another but from one person to thousands or millions of others" (Stepinska, Agnieszka, 2014). .
Some have argued that the media creates misconceptions about, crime, criminals and victims. Surely it would seem at face value that crime news almost always over-represents violent and sexual crimes, while under-representing other forms of criminality. Popular attitudes towards and understandings of the crime are often established around stereotypical images of more serious crimes, for example; the terrorist, the paedophile, the rapist or the armed robber. Since most of society have little direct knowledge or experience of criminally victimising others or being criminally victimised, their awareness is to a large extent obtained from secondary sources. Gossip, second and third hard storytelling, newspapers, magazines, television news, radio and various fictional accounts and presentations of crime and society gives us knowledge about crimes, victims and criminals. Each of these types of media will regularly show exaggerated images of violence. They offer us a skewed image of the crime and a far from accurate or 'real' portrayal of the crime, the criminal and the victim (Marsh, Ian; Melville, Gaynor, 2009) . .
In media representations, young people, especially young men and boys, easily attract and are readily ascribed offender status yet have to work hard to achieve any kind of victim status (Brown, 1998; Munice, 2004).
