CIN240H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Matricide, Forensic Science, Cesare Beccaria
Document Summary
The scientific study of non-legal crimes and criminals. Diverse in terms of disciplines anthropology, psychology, statistics, etc. Criminologists have attempted to understand why some people are more or less likely to engage in certain types of behaviour. Intellectual movement of late modernity that vivifies the placing of crime and its control in the context of culture; aiming to redirect the criminological imagination towards the study of culture. Bring back to sociological theory; study subcultures and new things like virtual communities ; culture constantly in flux. Aim to better understand how mediated processes of cultural reproduction and exchange constitute the experience of crime; constructions upwards and constructions downwards; the real and the virtual. Research and analysis of mediated texts and images that circulate and promulgate the story" of crime and crime control in society ; news media, tv, comics, music, art, movies. Gangsta rap and the re-branding of crime as a desirable consumer choice .
