The media usually portrays and conveys youth
crime panics based on race, gender, class, and geography,
targeting those who are particularly vulnerable, marginal, and identifiable
(Schissel, 1997) by dramatising, embellishing, and sensationalising
articles and reports, as well as utilising their power and authoritative
contacts and position to instil a fear, preying on the, already,
prejudicial
and discriminatory, beliefs of society.