SOC310H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Innocent Victims, Moral Panic, Critical Discourse Analysis
Document Summary
High crime as a normal social fact- come to accept that crime is a fact and incorporated in our daily lives: something we can manage individually and as a group. Crime forms part of our daily environment i. e. people accepting crime will happen and incorporating it by taking precautionary measures (safe walking program) changes in official discourse- police motto to serve and to protect. Encourages citizens to be involved in suveillance. Very widespread program somewhat like neighbourhood watch. The myth of sovereign crime controls- state capable of providing law and security within its boundaries. The predicament of crime control- need to withdraw their claims to be provider of security- but also must recognize loss of power. Adaptations: criminologies of everyday life (adapts to predicament of crime conotrol by encouraging people to incorporate this criminology into everyday lives) Responsibilization: acting through non-state actors (state engages non-state actors, more popular under neo-liberalism) Takes on garland and argues against him.
