ANTHRO 169 Lecture 1: ANTHRO. 169_ WEEK 1 - MONDAY LECTURE

• School: UCLA
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHRO 169
• Professor: Jeffrey Brantingham

Document Summary

Entertain - make money - horror story - mythical status - public perception of crime is driven by the cycle of crime depicted by hollywood movies. Public expectation that cops should always be there to save people. La by the numbers: by looking at the numbers of officers in a city and how many car thefts there are can help us determine how likely a police officer is to help, which is often. This notion above is generated by the dramatic fallacy bc we think that the police has to be there immediately to solve a crime . Another fallacy is that police officers look a certain way; they are romanticized by hollywood movies. There are biases in the way that people interact and look at one another. A person"s judgement of someone"s criminality are in fact not most likely to victimize someone.