CC100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-10: Moral Panic, Sousveillance, Innocent Victim
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Cultural criminology is a sub discipline of criminology that explores links between culture, crime, and crime control in contemporary social life . Active audiences are people who do not consume media messages passively; rather, the meaning of the messages is negotiated or constructed actively, through interaction between those who produced the message and those who consume it. Media and crime are mutually constituted each works to shape the other. Powerful tool used to relay messages to the public. Research has been conducted on the media and its role in the construction and maintenance of dominant institutions and ideologies (hall 1978) Plays a role in defining the consensus and identifying the nature of deviance (naylor. Has the ability to define people, situations, places, and social issues. 1: focuses on something extraordinarily bad that affects many people, calls out for a solution to the problem, to be provided by the police, the government, etc.
