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CRIMINOLOGY Part 1 Understanding crime and criminology - Coggle Diagram
CRIMINOLOGY Part 1 Understanding crime
and criminology
1 Understanding crime and criminology
What is criminology?
An interdisciplinary subject
Defining criminology
Understanding crime
Crime and the criminal law
Crime as a social construct
Historical variation
Criminology in Britain
2 Crime and punishment in history
Emergence of a modern criminal justice system
Policing
The ‘new police’
Resistance and reform
Into the twentieth century
The victim and prosecution
Formalisation of the prosecution
process
The courts
Decline of the profi t motive
Punishment
Capital punishment
Transportation
Imprisonment
Probation
Crime and violence in history
Levels of crime
Perceptions of crime
Introduction
3 Crime data and crime trends
Measuring crime
Official statistics
England and Wales: Criminal Statistics
United States: Uniform Crime Reports
Assessing official statistics
Impact of legislation
Understanding ‘attrition’
Limitations of official statistics
Victimisation surveys
The Crime Survey for England and Wales
Local crime surveys
Other victimisation surveys
Assessing victimisation surveys
Comparing offi cial statistics and victimisation surveys
Crime trends
Data on offenders
Self-report studies
Assessing the self-report method
Introduction
4 Crime and the media
Introduction
Academic study of the media
Media representations of crime
Newsworthiness
The crime content in the media
Violent crime in the news
Are the media criminogenic?
Media effects
Media and fear of crime
Moral panics
Mods and rockers
Drug use and deviancy amplification
Mugging
Criticisms of moral panic theory
Policing and the media
The relationship between the police and the media
The representation of policing
Crime and the internet
Policing cybercrime
Representing terror
5 The politics of crime and its control
Introduction
The advent of ‘penal welfarism’
End of the first bipartisan consensus
Managerialism
Centralisation
The politics of crime and punishment in the USA
The ‘war on drugs’
Willie Horton and Michael Dukakis
Penal populism in the UK
Coalition and post-Coalition politics
Conclusion