CRIM 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Moral Panic, Serial Killer, Road Rage
23 Nov 2016
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Distorted picture of crime & cjs: atypical cases, if it bleeds, it leads , violence, stranger-perpetrated, bizarre, deserving/undeserving victims, lenient sentences. Disproportionate fear of crime: elderly, women, children, strangers. Overreaction to speci c forms of deviance believed to threaten moral order of society (cohen, 1972) Monday, february 1, 2016: instill unreasonable fear in general public, invoke responses from moral entrepreneurs. A socially constructed, stereotypical carrier of signi cant harm (dekeseredy, 1999, p. Representations of crime: in uence our beliefs on crime. Consider the rhetoric you hear on a regular basis: crimes are, acts of: terrorism, serial murder, gang violence, stranger rapes, car jackings, random muggins, road rage , going postal , razor blades in halloween. Monday, february 1, 2016 cookies, drive-by shootings, child kidnappings, police brutality, and plane crashes : committed by: killer kids, black males, internet pedophiles, pedophiles priests, child pornographers, gun-tooting madmen, crazed druggies and serial murders . Framing impacts perceptions: negative framing= negative societal reaction.
