CRM 202 Lecture 2: CRM202 - Lecture 2.docx
11 Dec 2014
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There are many influences on our notions of victimhoodorganizational constraints on media reporting influence our conceptions of the victim. At the same time, these images are deeply embedded in the broader moral, legal, social, and cultural influences of gender, class, and race. Ignores the institutional violence committed by or sanctioned by the state (eg in prisons or other institutions, in policing public order, during war) or by the corporate sector (ie in the workplace through labour code violations) Individual definitions of crime, and rationalizations which highlight individual responses to crime, are preferred to more complex cultural and political explanations meanwhile, institutions, corporations and governments may literally be getting away with murder (jewkes, 2004, p. 46: blaming individuals. Even the most cursory investigation of crime reporting demonstrates that crime news follows markedly different patterns to both the reality" of crime and its representation in official statistics. Important role in shaping the way we perceive.
