ATS2457 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Critical Criminology, Moral Panic, Behaviorism
11 Sep 2013
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Recap: the theoretical contexts guiding research on crime and the media. Media effects posits a causal relationship between media and crime. Left realists criticise the marxist inspired approaches: saw them as romanticising the views/ways in which the working class is seen as kicking against power/institutions. Reception analysis idea that audiences are passive recipients: contest that and say that they re more dynamic than that. Cultural criminology about what people do with the media: develops in response to post modernity. Defining features of marxism: not about measuring crimes on people s body, but looking at the relationship between the power and powerless. More about constructing meaning no fixed identity ongoing, dynamic process. Most interested in things that are more ambiguous and social change. Does the media cause crime: media effects research. Does the media distort crime: marxism moral panic research. Does the media stereotype certain groups: marxism moral panic research. Does the media construct crime: postmodernism.
