CRM 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: National Crime Victimization Survey, Moral Panic, Civil Disobedience

• School: Villanova University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 1001
• Professor: remster

Document Summary

Social construction of reality: a lot of our ideas come from the media. Bias from us (we choose what news we watch and read) We interpret and understand news based on our own experiences. Moral panics (cid:862)a co(cid:374)ditio(cid:374), situation, or group of people who become defined as a social threat to social (cid:448)alues a(cid:374)d i(cid:374)terests(cid:863: reaction out of proportion to threats, various groups involved in outrageous reactions: celebrities, media, general public. 5 factors of moral panic: timing, spread, target and trigger, end, content. Causes of crime: le(cid:374)ie(cid:374)ce to(cid:449)ards cri(cid:373)e leads to (cid:862)get tough la(cid:449)s(cid:863) Politicians frame crime as a problem: civil disobedience is because of a breakdown in law and order. Appeari(cid:374)g (cid:862)soft o(cid:374) cri(cid:373)e(cid:863) is political suicide. Varieties: survey data: used to measure and learn about crime. O(cid:448)erco(cid:373)es the (cid:862)dark figure(cid:863) of cri(cid:373)e (cid:894)(cid:448)icti(cid:373)less or u(cid:374)reported cri(cid:373)e(cid:895) Sample based: national crime victimization survey and monitoring the future. Reporting biases: official statistics: uniform crime reports (ucrs)