Crime and media help please

[Moldiver]

"There is a strong match between people’s lived experience of crime and media reporting of crime. Use research evidence to criticise this statement and apply key theories of crime to explain your answer."

That is the question that needs answering and the server that has the notes is down and theres no one in the uni to reboot it, so me and prolly the rest of my class have no access to any notes to help us.

Anyone got any views on this or any ways i should attempt to tackle this question.

Ive just had to learn about hippies, punks and capitalism and write about that cause i had no access to notes. Damm uni, can't believe it has happened again, the server goes down when everyone needs it most.

I am trying loads of different searches on the net to try and come up ith some theroies but is quite hard.

Edit i might have something. I typed the question into google and my lecturers journal came up. SCORE!

[Baron Samedi]

Originally Posted by Moldiver

"There is a strong match between people’s lived experience of crime and media reporting of crime.

Fucking-utter-hell. I'm so glad I dropped out of higher educatuon when I did - what does that statement even mean?!

At a basic level people's lived experience of crime obviously has a direct correlation to media reporting of crime - if not, why would they be reporting it?

Beyond that I'm lost. I'm presuming you got more background than that basic question. I'm hoping the question's set in a context not mentioned in your post otherwise I'm obviously in deep, deep trouble.

I've got a sneaky feeling I may have embarassed myself greatly here and get jumped on from a great height for my stupidity.

At least I'm honest

[Moldiver]

All i had was the question but i found my lecturers journal which is basically the lecture notes, so all i need to do is read it, but DAMN its long!