{"id":45383,"date":"2012-02-28T12:18:06","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T17:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=45383"},"modified":"2012-02-28T14:39:39","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T19:39:39","slug":"misrepresenting-crime-in-tv-documentaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/02\/28\/misrepresenting-crime-in-tv-documentaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Misrepresenting Crime in TV Documentaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/02\/crime-tv.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-45385\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/02\/crime-tv-500x229.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/02\/crime-tv-500x229.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/02\/crime-tv.jpg 609w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>London filmmaker <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelwstory.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Story<\/a> sent in a short video he made about the mismatch between crime as presented in TV reports and the reality of crime in the UK. TV reports, Michael argues, misrepresent how common crime is, where it occurs, and who is most likely to be involved in violent crime; in so doing, they reinforce stereotypes about race, ethnicity, class, and criminality:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/32535141?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/32535141?width=1080\" data-rel=\"lightbox-video-0\">London&#8217;s 66,000 guns &#8211; by Michael Story<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/chichard41\">chichard41<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London filmmaker Michael Story sent in a short video he made about the mismatch between crime as presented in TV reports and the reality of crime in the UK. TV reports, Michael argues, misrepresent how common crime is, where it occurs, and who is most likely to be involved in violent crime; in so doing, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,2056,129,343,1811,283,285,133],"class_list":["post-45383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class","tag-crimelaw","tag-media","tag-tvmovies","tag-nation-britainthe-u-k","tag-prejudicediscrimination","tag-raceethnicity","tag-violence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45383"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45397,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45383\/revisions\/45397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}