SOC316H5 Chapter Notes -Gated Community, Juvenile Delinquency, Moral Panic
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Chapter 6 crime complex: the culture of high crime societies. Policies that have emerged over the last few decades have their roots in a new collective experience of crime and insecurity, an experience that is itself structured by the distinctive social, economic and cultural arrangements of late modernity. Policies depend on political transformation and representation, and possibility and popularity based off of extra-political conditions (social routines and cultural sensibilities) which make the policies possible and desirable. Crime-control strategies are developed, argued for, and legislated in the political realm, so commentary typically focuses on political process and the interests and ideologies involved. Need to understand the shifts in the extra-political conditions (social context) in order to understand the policies" context, timing, and popular appeal. Politics and policies involve choice and decision-making and possibility of acting otherwise. Background conditions increase probability that policies with possibility will occur.
