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.
No offerings have been identified for this subject in 2018.
HD/FL
One session
Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security
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
. Mertons theory of anomie in intellectual context . The theory of juvenile delinquency and drift . Labelling theory including: . primary and secondary deviance . the making of law . the identification and processing of deviance . correctional/treatment processes and the concept of total institution . The social production of crime and deviance statistics . The role of the mass media in the production of images of crime and deviance . Deviance amplification theory . Marxist theory with emphasis on: . the making of law and the role of the state in crime and deviance . the making of ideology about crime and deviance
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