Group Activity: Cultural Criminology

12345678910111213141516171819
Across
  1. 2. one of the areas of Research in Cultural Criminology
  2. 4. individuals or groups that become the focus of this moral crusade and which are “presented in media as deviant outsiders and the cause of social problems”
  3. 6. examples include art, music, and film
  4. 9. "The shared way of life, or the values and beliefs, of a particular social group" according to Ferrell
  5. 11. researchers code and count the occurrence of elements designated by the researcher prior to the study (e.g., the number of times a violent act occurs).
  6. 13. Jack Katz, Jock Young, Keith Hayward and Mike Presdee
  7. 15. the researchers focus on the narrative, using an open-ended protocol to record information.
  8. 16. outlawing popular culture
  9. 17. “A person, group or organization that takes the lead in identifying certain behaviour as deviant and in need of legal sanction”. Often “members of society who have wealth, power, and political clout, not to mention sufficient time and energy to pursue their moral crusades”
  10. 18. important cultural theorist
  11. 19. “[w]hen a ‘condition, episode, person or group of persons emerges to become defined as a threat to societal values and interests’”
Down
  1. 1. example of Ethnography
  2. 3. Integration of above two approaches – cyclical interaction in the meaning of crime/criminals
  3. 5. newest variations of critical criminology
  4. 7. E.g. music, comics, film, news reports, etc.
  5. 8. individuals commit crimes in imitation of what they have seen on television or in the movies
  6. 9. example Chavopoly
  7. 10. “emphasise the ‘background’ factors (such as the inequalities) that are said to shape the culture of crime” aka focuses on structure as explanatory element
  8. 12. “highlights the values, styles, symbols, conventions and foreground factors such as the emotions that make crime and deviance meaningful to the perpetrators” aka focus on culture (i.e. shared way of life) as explanatory element
  9. 14. when was this theory emerged