analysis of British media found an overarching message, particularly in the conservative press, that people commit crimes because they are not like the rest of us . In other words, one of the common characteristics found in media explanations of crime is that the media plays into fears of ‘‘otherness.’’ In the United Kingdom, Greer and Jewkes found that the conservative press focused almost exclusively on an individual’s ‘‘otherness,’’ often ignoring other possible explanations, as the sole cause of their deviance.