estimates of the extent of news devoted to crime are highly sensitive
to the varying definitions adopted by different researchers. They are also variable
according to differences between media, markets, and over time. Deviance and control
in a broad sense are the very stuff of news. However, stories about the commission of
particular offences are more common in ‘popular’ news outlets (although for official
or corporate crime the reverse is true). The proportion of news devoted to crime, and
even more so the proportion