ATS2457 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Victimisation, Critical Criminology, Mass Media
11 Sep 2013
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Emphasises the relationship between routine, everyday life, and the surrounding social structures. State of anxiety/alarm brought about by the feeling that one is at risk of criminal victimisation. Radical criminological perspective that views crime as a natural and inevitable outcome of class inequalities and patriarchy and which proposes to take both crime and fear of crime seriously. Process by which a group/institution achieves and maintains public support for its actions. Diverse array of tasks, skills and procedures involving monitoring, regulation, protection and enforcement. Notion that, with declining faith in the formal structures and procedures of the cj establishment and growing alarm that crime is out of control, the public support more punitive and retributive crime control and sentencing policies. People who rely on the entertainment media have less accurate perceptions of crime than people who use others: suggests the media are guilty of manipulating the picture of crime (not just statistics, public fears of crime).
