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Media Hell contains numerous articles and resources
dealing with media coverage of crime. Our perspective is that
the media generally exaggerate (and/or misreport) rises in
crime, and ignore (and/or misreport) falls in crime –
usually to scaremongering effect.
In this section:
• BBC's misleading crime
headlines >
• BBC upholds our complaint on
crime coverage >
• Dialogue with BBC's
Mark Easton >
• The "crime
is spiralling" fallacy >
• The "violence is spiralling"
fallacy >
• Police figures
vs British Crime Survey (BCS) >
• Latest annual
crime figures (July 2006) >
• Latest
quarterly crime figures (January 2007) >
• Annual crime figures
(July 2005) >
• Annual crime figures
(July 2004) >
• British
Crime Survey (October 2000) >
• Violent
Crime Overview (January 2006) >
• "Yob" crime –
media myths on antisocial behaviour >
• Comparative risk of media-hyped
threats >
• The mythical Golden
Age >
• Knife crime hysteria >
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