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Defender's objections
Crime comes to mind reading |
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VIDpS
- intentional harm over accidental
- directly by and personally over directly and impersonally (safety hazard)
- self-interest reasons (than say at war)
- violent crimes over non violent crimes
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What's in a Name?
(reading crime) |
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- views on crime is in the fear of crime and is categorized as such
- look at crimes we care most about are probably not the ones we should be worried about
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| When crimes occur, how do we shape? |
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| we try to come up with a temporary solution |
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| Best way to approach crime and get everybody on board |
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"war"
- make it look like a wide spread problem
- put urgency
- Bush being either with or without
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| political parties and crime |
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put crime rates in speeches
(war on drugs) |
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| sources war rhetic is derived from |
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CPRB
- comitment to tackle a problem
- plan what needs to be done
- resources to those waging war (agencies)
- benefits of visibility to politicians and
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| Process of panacea process |
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- need to do something leads to "cure all" search
- unrealistic and unsound expectations
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doism: to do something rather than nothing
newism: appeal new policies bc they are new |
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GILESS
- cost effectiveness (cheapest)
- immediate gain (no long process)
- clear logic (clarity of logic)
- good intention (good outcome)
- evidence of success (provide emperical evidence of ability to work)
- hungry for solution (approach to policy is like weight loss)
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- Efficiency (fast)
- Calculability (quanitity/quality)
- Predictability (consistant)
- Control (control)
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| Relationship between public policy and Crime |
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| they interchange between the two |
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| a change in amount of crime or public perception of crime |
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| how is crime change viewed |
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| why enumerousy is greater with crime |
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numbers are bigger
raw numbers
new problems
sources
claims makers
media |
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| establish and accepted crime reports |
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xyz something happens
(take raw number and divide by seconds in year) |
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how does media use statistics
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| as attention grabbing shit |
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an important crime motivator
(hate or rage plays in crime commission) |
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affective
behavioral
cognitive |
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| cognitive dimension of fear |
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| estimate amount of crime and violent crime |
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| affective dimension of fear |
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| afraid of crime without being personally fearful |
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| behavioral dimension of fear |
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what people do rather than in terms of what they say
(bad memory, dishonesty, etc) |
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women
elderly (disproportionately
race and income
community and residence
victim status
access to crime news |
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| what we cout as victimization is actually less |
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| various kinds of disorder go unchecked, message is sent to lawful that no one really cares to maintain public order |
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| gaps are assumed to exist between victimization levels and fear levels may be illusionary than actual |
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| Why do crime rates go up and down |
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| sudden increase in crime levels requires us to think about how extreme events might upset social order |
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| Examples of social dislocation |
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war
economic dislocation
instituional breakdown |
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spread of behavior
EDAC
- emitter/transmitters
- diffuse something
- adaptors/recievers
- channel/linkage (how done)
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general ways crime might diffuse from media to audiences
(tv, music, etc) |
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introduction of something newall that is inteded by the use of the term in context
SMT
- Social (∆ in routine activities)
- Market (prohibition, crack)
- Technological (credit card, car theft, etc)
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| crime wave is under way when there esixts widely shared perceptions that a crime is under way |
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victims
offenders
criminal events (black-hand)
places |
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| nature of extortion, with symbol of hand |
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wave length (btn two extremes)
wave shape (rise rapid or fall [symmetric/a]
Linearity (∆ in crime rate be proportionate or consistant)
Wave extension (synchronous or asynchronous) |
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politicians
media ppl
experts
policy agencies
offenders
victims
security industry |
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