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.