Women and Violence: Media Making the Call - A look at the adverse socio-effects resulting from the media's portrayal of women and violence

Scientific Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Sociology - Social System, Social Structure, Class, Social Stratification, grade: 87%, Ottawa University, course: CRM3317 - Crime and Media, language: English, abstract: Through extensive research, this paper concludes that often times it is not the details of the crime that determine whether a story will receive news coverage, rather, it is the woman's age, race, nationality, class, or even appearance, that determines it; and that furthermore, this portrayal of women in the media is detrimental for women in society.

Product details

• Authors: Cory Contini
• Publisher: Grin Verlag
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.03.2013
• EAN: 9783656394310
• ISBN: 978-3-656-39431-0
• No. of pages: 16
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 210 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 40 g
• Series: Akademische Schriftenreihe; Akademische Schriftenreihe Bd. V211154; Akademische Schriftenreihe; Akademische Schriftenreihe Bd. V211154
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research