CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Control Theory, Penology, Labeling Theory
8 Jan 2018
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Criminology as an interdisciplinary social science: draws on sociology, psychology, biology, law, geography, economics. Understanding crime in canada: an introduction to criminology. Rock & roll: music influences crime and drug use. Cultural criminology: cultural criminology is sub discipline of criminology, that explores links between culture, crime and crime control in contemporary life (steeves & milford, 2015, explores cultural meaning of media violence, and emphasizes significance of active audiences . Active audiences means that people do not consume media messages passively; rather, the meaning of the messages is negotiated or constructed actively, through interaction between those who produced the message and those who consume it. Horror that they generated in the community and across the nation, and identified violent video games as the cause : us government responded by legislating label and content warnings for media content. The media, politicians, professional groups, religious organizations my act independently; may genuinely believe they are acting in the best interests of society.
