CRM 3312 Lecture : Oct 8.docx

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 3312
• Professor: Kenneth Campbell

Document Summary

Moral panics (cohen, 1974: creating moral outrage through, negative images in the media, public outcry leading to harsher treatment, cohen was one of the first criminologists that looked at how media influences things, cohen demonstrated a moral panic in the uk in 1970s (mods and rockers, police overreacted, mediate perpetuated threat. Research on media reporting: reporting only began after yoa, various studies affirm previous findings, alarmist reactions to crime, emotionally driven, promote fear, cause and effect of moral panics, justify inappropriate, harsher strategies for dealing with young crime. International agreements: rationale and weaknesses of them to, myths, what crimes get reported and what messages conveyed, moral panics what impact that has, notion of different meausres of youth crime, how to we measure crime rates, whats effective, general trends, general trends in tables, know different phases of evolution of youth rights, hallmarks of conventons.