CRIM 1650 Lecture : CRIM 1650 Lecture Notes - WINTER TERM.docx
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Newtown connecticut shooting (adam lanza) killed twenty children: nra held a press conference and one of his key recommendations was that armed guards were needed to be placed in all schools in the united states. There is no evidence between mental illness and crime like there is evidence between alcohol and crime. *clip from the nra press conference: the mentality is similar to that of silence of the lambs the nra seems to be invested in the myths of the criminal mind. Monstrous psychopaths versus the rest of us . Objectives: cultural representations of race and crime, racialization of crime, criminalization of race, dilemmas of definition and measurement, explaining the race-crime link, differential offending versus, racial discrimination. How connections between race and crime are culturally and socially constructed. E. g. skin colour, eye shape, hair texture. The problems with this biological view (assumption that race is a biological category)