CRIM 2650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Dakota Fanning, Critical Criminology, Social Disorganization Theory
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Criminology: ac ad emic and popular criminology (rafter"s broad definition) Criminological a e sthetics examines how popular criminology constructs its im- ag e s of crime. Moral concept of evil into a visi- ble/visual form. The hunger games: imagining victims and the hierarchy of victimization. Our cultural ability to imagine victims inters ects with our ability to identify with certain types of victimhood e. g. p eople were shocked that rue from the hunger games was black. People in their mind imagined rue being white, a younger dakota fanning . In our society, our idea of victimization in our he ad is a young dakota fanning. Many ac ademic criminologies: thes e are multiple criminologies that have developed over time. There are two main schools of thought: (1) mainstream criminology (2) critical crimi- nology. Academic criminology s e en a s directly/indirectly a s a normalizing project of the state.
