CRM 1300 Chapter 1: Ch1 Lecture.doc
24 Apr 2014
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Legislators, people who have the power and ability to make them happen: socially constructed problems: the moral panic, how do laws get created, what is moral panic, when people are concerned about something, laws get put into place, occurs when a condition, episode, person or group of persons is defined as a threat to societal values and interests, a mass movement that some group or thing is deviant, and if action isn"t taken it will take away from our society, ex 9/11 people of different cultures, cold war, prohibition, h1n1 flu, moral entrepreneurs individuals who start the panic, can be one person, a group or even a formal organization. Last one, total new convictions by federal offenders on conditional release. attention of the authorities: the 3 d"s, discretion the use of individual decision making and choice to influence the operations of the cjs, disparity inconsistence as a result of the authorities using illegitimate factors in making decisions.
