CRM 2302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Moral Panic, Rate Equation, Last Week Tonight With John Oliver

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 2302
• Professor: Adina Ilea

Document Summary

The social history of a moral panic": picture slide, chapter one in: policing the crisis: mugging, the state and law and order (hall et. Stuart hall: 1932-2014, cultural theorist, born in jamaica, moved to england on scholarship to oxford, he wrote a lot about the media, they weren"t interested in crime at first. Policing the crisis: mugging the state and law and order: book is not about mugging per se, rather, it asks, why did british society react to mugging in the extreme way it did, at that. It is not about why some people engage in mugging or how to stop them particular point in time (1972) They are looking at the social reaction to mugging: concerned with mugging as a social phenomenon. Interest in topic of mugging (and crime) after handsworth, birmingham case. The young men were give 10-20 years (seen as long before) This was a strong social reaction to this case.