CRIM 1650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Amber Alert, Stranger Danger, Root Mean Square

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

Document Summary

Crime is a perfect example of this because most people and voters are worried about crime, and the perception that it is on the rise. Crime can transcend all groups of political parties. i. e. : get tough policies. Controversial aspects of politics: un-employment, abortion, etc: political scapegoat - issue that is used by politicians to de ect attention from more pressing and systemic social problems. De ect from problems such as: un- employment, housing, etc. Which are actually drivers for crime, but they take time and cant always be packaged in the time of their presidency. Easier to look at crime with a punitive response. Terrorism has been used more recently in this way (ie: Donald trump): political expediency - crime is an issue which allows for straightforward, quick and highly symbolic policy responses. Tricky to sympathize with them and is a message loaded with emotion, anger, fear.