CRM 3317 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Hegemonic Masculinity
31 Jul 2018
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10/20/17 (13) the thin blue line": police and the media (pt. 2) The thin blue line": crime explicitly articulates diffuse anxiety encroachment of forces of disorder. Society is increasingly organized on the basis of mitigating risks. This is not necessarily to say that people have not always been fearful, but the risks have changed and are overwhelming. Crime becomes something that is a convenient place to place our anxieties: need for protective action. Crime seems like something that society has a grasp on (we know the victims, the perpetrators, and what crime is). This allows us to know who to call upon in order to control this. The focus on municipal forces as a form of social control did not emerge into the media until the 1970s: there was a push for a new genre that focuses on law enforcers as heroes. Movies like g-men (government men) were developed which shows fbi agents and police officers.
