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Crime in the Mass media

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Hans Joachim Schneider
Hans Joachim Schneider*
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Director, Department of Criminology, University of Westfalia, Federal Republic of Germany
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In the last decade the mass media have worldwide to be larger, more influential and more powerful. After it was possible in the Federal Republic of Germany in the Fifties to receive one TV program and in the Sixties and Seventies to receive three TV programs, the number of receivable TV programs has risen for a huge part of the population in Western Europe through cable TV to eleven or even more programs in the last years. More TV channels are announced. Additionally there is the huge offer of videos. The distribution of video recorders in the population is increasing. Worldwide we are on the way to a communication — to a mass media society in which fiction, phantasy, the definition of reality assumes a greater role than reality itself, where people want to be permanently entertained, and where the portrayal of the contents gains more emphasis than the contents itself.

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International Annals of Criminology , Volume 30 , Issue 1-2 , 1992 , pp. 85 - 100
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Copyright © 1992 International Society for Criminology

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