SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Moral Panic

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

Document Summary

Choose any crime committed in canada use 3 articles from canadian newspapers and use 2 criminological theories to understand and explain the offence. Proposal one paragraph overview must have one news source explain how theories apply to crime and a thesis. Lecture violence is common place, often times the media is sympathetic to the victim and appears to have portrayed it as random, which is often times not the case. Almost no information is given on the offender. Despite the fact that crime is decreasing, the media portrays a case that crime is everywhere thus creating a possibility for moral panic. Moral panic based on the false or exaggerated perception that some individual or group is dangerously devia(cid:374)t or poses a (cid:373)e(cid:374)a(cid:272)e to so(cid:272)iety. Ofte(cid:374) ti(cid:373)es this is fueled (cid:271)y the (cid:373)edia, (cid:374)or(cid:373)ally they do(cid:374)(cid:859)t last long. Moral entrepreneurs individuals who are able to influence moral codes within society, scientists, lawyers, religious organizations.