SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Public Knowledge, Ho People, Sexting

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Ryan Broll

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Media portrayals of crime: their main purpose is to attract viewership, not all entirely accurate or unbiased, violence is commonplace. Make us think violent crime is all around us: sympathetic victims. Tell us that victim are chose ra(cid:374)do(cid:373)ly a(cid:374)d (cid:271)uild the (cid:448)i(cid:272)ti(cid:373)"s rep higher: cj is (cid:862)too soft(cid:863) o(cid:374) (cid:272)ri(cid:373)i(cid:374)als. Insanity plea, more so in america: public knowledge about crime and justice largely comes from mass media, the way crime is portrayed in the media differs from empirical account, media portrayals can fuel moral panics. Moral panics: a mass movement based on the false or exaggerated perception that some individual or group is dangerously deviant and poses a menace to society. They controversy that are arguments that are hard to go against these movements due to how taboo they are: developed by stanley cohen (1973) The mods and the rockers: stanley cohen developed this theory to explain the mods and the rockers. These groups are identified with one another.