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

Women and Violence: Media Making the Call: A look at the adverse socio-effects resulting from the media’s portrayal of women...
ISBN-10
3656394156
ISBN-13
9783656394150
Category
Social Science
Pages
10
Language
English
Published
2013-03-19
Publisher
GRIN Verlag
Author
Cory Contini

Description

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.

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