CRIM 1650 Lecture 11: Criminology - Lecture #11

• School: York University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 1650
• Professor: James Williams

Document Summary

Youth crime as a moral panic: public reactions to youth crime resemble a moral panic and argue that these misinformed crime creates moral panic - stan cook book, the moral panic. Clash between two groups of youth in the 1960s-1970s: moral panics are repetitive cycles of public concern in which a group of people or a type of behaviour is de ned as problematic and deserving of immediate social intervention. Believed to be a threat to norms, standards. Has a punitive response, crime control or security measure. Panics are towards, women, minorities, etc: features, cyclical in nature and consistent with generational fears regarding the status of youth in society and related forms of cultural expression. (ie: forms of cultural expression. Robbery, kidnapping, extortion. ) (ie: frederick wertham seduction of. Ontario) fails to report important information: background, justi cations, etc. Media can be the only sort of source for information on crimes: fanned by politicians.