CRM 3314 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Reality, White Privilege, Abjection
7 Nov 2016
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Access to cannabis for medical purposes (acmpr) These drugs do in fact have medicinal value. In the past the drugs would be considered immoral and illegal and illicit, now start to see bureaucratic policies around medicinal marijuana take place of social discourses. Only bad if you don"t have a licence, only bad if you exceed what your prescription allows you to carry and use. Tension between previous messaging and medicinal value. Blurring of distinction between public health and criminal justice. What we know so far: legislation will be introduced spring 2017, task force offering recommendations november 2016. Rafter (2007: discourses about crime found in media. Fall under an umbrella term of popcriminology. Category composed of discourses about crime, criminality, cjs found in all sorts of media: representations academic criminology. People with power often times have certain amount of control of images presented to the public: visuality key feature of punishment. Visual tells the truth in ways where other testimonies don"t.
