CC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Copycat Crime, List Of Countries By Intentional Homicide Rate, Muckraker
Document Summary
Cultural criminology: cultural criminology is subdiscipline of criminology that explores the links between culture, crime and crime control in modern life, explores cultural meaning of media violence and emphasizes the significance of active audience. Activeaudiences meansthatpeopledonotconsumemediamessagespassively, rather the content is discussed or constructed actively through interactions between the content"s producers and the consumers. Moral panics: stanley cohen explored relationship between media and moral panics in the 1972 book, Policing the crisis: title of 1978 book, by stuart hall, et al, book was about mugging, the state and law and order , built upon. Reality: journalists face pressure to report about police in a positive way since relationship with police ensures access to interviews and/or news tips, police are sometimes given ultimate control over footage that appears. Thus, their final portrayal is always intended to be favorable: mediaportrayalsusuallyshowpolicefightingcrimewheninreality,theyaremostly spending their time keeping the peace, directing traffic, doing paperwork, etc.
