31 Chapter 8 Discussion Questions
- How does the commodification of violence in video games and media reflect broader trends in global capitalism and late modern consumer culture?
- How does “media loops” challenge traditional ideas of the relationship between reality and media when reporting crime? What is another example not discussed in this chapter?
- Further explain ways TV programs like Cops and To Catch a Predator blur the line between news, entertainment, and law enforcement? What are the social consequences of this?
- What changes in modernity explains the shift from short term moral panic to sustained spirals?
- Taking the concepts spirals and loops into consideration, how can cultural criminologists better understand reactions to crime in the digital and social media age?