CRIM 2650 Lecture Notes - Vesyolye Ulybki, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Community Policing
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Lecture overview: brief recap, defining and re-defining criminology. Criminology: academic and popular criminology popular crim: popular image and sortie about crime found in mainstream pop culture. We need to take pop culture seriously we shouldn"t dismiss it because it has an enormous effect on what people know about crime. Television and film privilege a standpoint of their technical consultant (police officers) and of knowledge experiential and narrative knowledge, rather than scientific knowledge. There are cops in all crime dramas and tv shows. Some technical consultants know when to back off and let writers do what they do use their artistic. Allowing inaccurate representations of policing: the bad guys think that every phone is tapped. That"s the hardest thing in the world to get. The bad guys think that we have these flare things that the main characters use. And if the bad guys think we have technological advancements then good.
