JST444 Deviance and Control (8)
Enrolment Restriction: Not available to students who have completed 25230 Sociology of Deviance or SOC3074 Deviance and Control or SOC2310 Deviance and Social Control or JST223 Deviance and Social Control
This subject analyses social processes which cause crime and deviance, those through which law and ideas about crime are constructed, criminals and deviant persons processed and the ways in which people come to hear about and understand crime and deviance. The role of the mass media in the production of ideas about crime and deviance and the social production of crime statistics are considered. A number of sociological theories are used as the tools for these analyses.