SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Public Knowledge, Moral Panic, Sexting
3 Oct 2016
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Essay: 20% due 7pm online november 15, late penalty is 5% per day (7:01pm, choose a crime committed in canada since jan 1 2011. Essay proposal: 5% due 7pm on oct 4, 1 paragraph overview of the crime you will analyze. Turn it in can take up to 24 hours to return the paper. 4 primary methods of measuring crime: official statistics, self-report surveys, victimization surveys, observational studies. Cjs is too soft on criminals: ex. Public knowledge about crime and justice largely comes from mass media. The way crime is portrayed in the media differs from empirical accounts. A mass movement based on the false or exaggerated perception that some individual or group is dangerously deviant and poses a menace to society. Model entrepreneurs: they decided what"s good, bad, normal, deviant, the politicians, law makers, scientists, media, usually have a hand is starting or fueling moral ends, white wealthy older men.
