Discuss the relationship between the picture of crime and social media according to Box (1983). Do you agree with Box’s (1983) argument regarding the picture of crime and social media?

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Steven Box (1983) suggests that the picture of crime that the public receive is manipulated by those in power and that there is an overconcentration on the crimes of the young, racial minorities, the working class and the unemployed, and an underawareness of the crimes of the well-educated upper and middle classes, the socially privileged and those in power. He argues that the processes by which the public receive information about crime via the mass media result in perceptions about criminal justice being determined by very narrow legal definitions that tolerate, accept, or even applaud the crimes of the privileged, while criminalizing the disadvantaged.

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