CC202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Control, Differential Association, Subculture
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Various typologies, but some basic agreement: sexual sadists, delusional killers, custodial killers, uilitarian killers. Modernity and serial murder: mass media, celebrity culture, and idenity. Accounts of serial killers in the media. News media cover the events in detail. Consumed with random violence and unsolved murder. Use media to communicate with the public and the police. Consider themselves celebriies : can do this through commiing crimes. Allows individuals to gain a sense of self. Some like to be around the danger of it. Some like to have a long-distance pen-pal relaionship. Peaked in the 1980s and has declined since then. Why the decline: law enforcement is beter at catching criminals, tough of crime, violent crime, more generally, has been on the decline, media doesn"t focus on it anymore in detail, anonymity. Industrializaion and how we interact with one another. Our interacions are more leeing and less personal. Being mobile all the ime, people are less aware of another"s whereabouts.
