CRIM 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Moral Panic, List Of Countries By Intentional Homicide Rate, Single Parent
25 Sep 2017
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Crim 210 - lecture 4 - youth crime as a social problem. Getting picture of actual extent of youth crime - problematic. Regardless of method of acquiring data on phenomenon, bound to be inaccuracies. Research attempt to paint youth crime picture by using official statistics from. Since public"s perception & opinion influence political issues, official statistics can be very important to placing views in context of what is actually happening. Public has recently been in moral panic about youth murder rates. Moral panics arise when media sensationalizes violent youth crimes to promote reader interest & increase newspaper readership & sales/to increase viewer attraction to newscasts. Most ppl do not think critically about info they encounter, therefore, what media reports has significant influence on public perception of various crime & justice issues. Other measures of crime: victimization & self-report studies. Juristat published results of 2006 toronto study on self-reported youth delinquency.
