SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Moral Panic, Public Knowledge, Scientific Method
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Choose a crime committed in canada since jan 1, 2011. Use library to source at least three articles from canadian newspapers (canadian news stream on library website) about the crime. Select 2 criminological theories to understand and/or explain the offence you identified. 4-5 pages in length, excludes title page and references. Essay proposal: 5% 7pm october 4 one paragraph overview of crime. [must have at least one news source at the time]. Brief (1-2 sentence) explanation as to how the theories may be useful for understanding the offence a thesis sentence parenthetical citations one page in length excluding title page and references. Public knowledge about crime and justice largely come from mass media. The way crime is portrayed in the media differs from empirical accounts. Moral panics the mass movement based on the false or exaggerated perception that some individual or group is dangerously deviant and pose as a menace to society.
