CRIM 1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: General Social Survey, Super Bowl, Gender Equality
6 Jun 2018
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● California transparency act
● Superbowl
○ Must have stadium for large amount of people → labor trafficking
Framing Social Problems
● Connect human trafficking to understood problem like crime
What is a Problem Frame?
● Selectively use info to understand problems
● Schema of interpretation
○ Filters people use to understand the world → based on previous experiences
● Social construction of a social phenomenon by mass media, politicians, social
movement leaders
○ Tap into existing schema
How Could Human Trafficking be Framed?
● Human rights → didn’t really take off in US, and little political support anywhere in the
world
● Immigration
● Gender equality
● Crime problem - in US → person coming in and needs to be held accountable and can
be stopped through existing criminal justice system
● National security problem
● Child welfare/abuse
● Economic
Impact of Framing
● Snow and Benford 3 types of frames
○ Diagnostic → identifies and assigns blame
○ Prognostic → suggests solutions, strategies, tactics
○ Motivational → serves as call to arms
● Some frames resonate with public or individuals while others don’t
● Got reframed as national security problem in 2004-2006ish
○ 9/11 and war in middle east
● Put trafficking under homeland security
● Where the money was
○ No money to law enforcement other than terrorism
● Randos like pimps repackaged as transnational criminals (AHHH)
● No evidence that trafficking is fueling terrorism (in the US)
Moral Crusades
Public Perceptions of Human Trafficking in the US
● Nationally representative public opinion survey
● Use of knowledge networks (2000)
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Document Summary
Must have stadium for large amount of people labor trafficking. Connect human trafficking to understood problem like crime. Filters people use to understand the world based on previous experiences. Social construction of a social phenomenon by mass media, politicians, social movement leaders. Human rights didn"t really take off in us, and little political support anywhere in the world. Crime problem - in us person coming in and needs to be held accountable and can be stopped through existing criminal justice system. Snow and benford 3 types of frames. Motivational serves as call to arms. Some frames resonate with public or individuals while others don"t. Got reframed as national security problem in 2004-2006ish. No money to law enforcement other than terrorism. Randos like pimps repackaged as transnational criminals (ahhh) No evidence that trafficking is fueling terrorism (in the us) Public perceptions of human trafficking in the us.
