CRIM 2650 Lecture : 2650 L9.docx
Document Summary
Popular criminology: the dark knight as example of popular criminology. Cultural meanings of crime and crime control. Focus on subcultures vs. mainstream (pop) culture. Representations and images of crime in mainstream culture. Imagination: process through which we make images. Criminal intelligence service of canada"s 2009 report on organized. Pop cultural products as evidence of people"s attitudes/perceptions of crime. Policing and correcting media images of crime. Close textual analysis of content and format. Affect: audience identification with, as, or against law/criminal. Criminology: efforts to understand crime and criminals. Popular criminology: discourses and images of crime found in films, tv shows, novels, rap music, myths and on the internet. Two equal but different ways of knowing. Popular criminology can overlap with academic criminology: reflects and shapes academic criminological theories. Culture (e. g. crime films) is a reservoir of images about crime and criminality. Fragmentary sources of information about crime that are later organized into schemas in our minds.
