... (2002). The media has a huge influential power therefore having the ability to control the way society thinks and perceives a given subject. We are a media nation. The time spent watching television, films, video and audio recordings, radio program's, video games, the Internet, newspapers and magazines makes the media virtually unavoidable. Most places will have their own newspaper and some their own news. Families all round Britain sit down together and watch the headlines, these are more often than not about crime and justice. Surveys conducted by the Canadian Sentencing Commission in 1987 reported that as many as 95% of the general population cite the mass media as their primary source of information about crime. (Dominick 1978 p.106 as cited in Surette, R (1998)) The way the media portrays many subjects has been recognised as being disproportional to reality. Recently people who are in an influential position have tried to ...

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