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what are the four levels on the “wedding cake” model
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1. Celebrity cases
- The big deal cases that we always talk about,even twenty years after they happen - They make up the smallest amount, but they’re atthe top 2. Serious felonies - Major crimes that can be more local and not makenational news 3. Lesser felonies - More frequent, like drug crimes 4. Miss demeanors - Never hear about them, not interesting to hearabout because so common - Petty theft |
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What are the problems with the wedding cake?
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- focuses on only extreme crimes - makes people afraid of unlikely crimes - desensitizes people from high crime - justifies lesser crime because people won't pay attention to it - makes people who want to get attention from committing a crime raise the stakes |
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What is a moral panic?
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- When a group or type of activity is perceived as a threat to the stability and wellbeing of society - deviance, crime, collective behavior, social problems and social movements. - proves there is a limit to how much diversity society can tolerate - more media attention increases group activity and participation |
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What are the actors of a moral panic? |
1. Media provides info (not always accurate) 2. public responds 3. law enforcement 4. politicians and public officials 5. editorial writers (comment) experts (explain) 6. action groups (moral entrepreneurs) |
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who invented moral panics? |
Stanley Cohen |
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Moral panic framework: |
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what is the juvenile superpredator? |
the fear that adolescents are dangerous to society, like being involved in gangs and getting into trouble - “Mods and Rockers” example, mods = modernists who listened to music like the beatles, rolling stones and who, often road motorbikes |
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Urban Legends and Gangs |
- prove toughness and take irrevocable step into deviance - minority ethnic group - towards white majority - vulnerable women and children - nonse like slasher under the car or lights out - beat downs from older members - random acts of violence towards strangers - fear of crime emphasized by randomness, everyone is at risk |
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Why do we have these legends? |
- easy to explain crimes without motivation to be apart of random gang violence - easier to see the gang members as deviant and evildoers than products of inequality and the ghettos - the randomness increases fear of crime, no one is safe |
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How does the media present drugs? |
politicians use it for policy (war on drugs) - increase military involvement - rise and fall of drugs being important political issue doesn't coincide with drug use - public concern only affected by politicians efforts - through media, social control public opinion shaped through media because its rarely observed directly |
