Final Exam - Short Answer Flashcards
Conflict Theorist approaching law
- Crime is the result of class struggle
- Focus on role government plays in creating a criminogenic environment
- Challenge the commonly held belief that law is neutral and reflects the interests of society as a whole
- Also focus on the role that bias plays in the criminal justice system
- Criminal law is a tool to protect the interests of the affluent and the powerful
Criminogenic Environment
Environment that as a result of laws that privilege certain groups, produce crime or criminality
Conflict view of law
- Law as a tool to protect the haves from the have-nots
- Protects the property of those in power, suppresses potential threats to the elites
Mass Communication
-The transmission of messages by a person or group through a device to a larger audience
Mass Media
-Any medium designed to communicate messages to a mass audience
Time Biased Media
Media that have longevity but whose form prevents their transmission over physical distance
Space Biased Media
Can convey messages readily over physical distance
technology leads to increased mobility
- Greater ability to move wherever they like and remain connected
- Online courses
Functionalist view on Media
- Socialization Function
- Surveillance Function
- Correlation Function
- Entertainment Function
Socialization Function
- Achieved by mass media
- values, beliefs, traditions transmitted from one generation to the next
Surveillance Function
Understood as the need for society to have a mechanism in place that gathers info for the population
Correlation Function
Present difficult and complex issues in a way that most people can understand
Entertainment Function
Allows people to rest, relax and escape daily pressures (distracts from important events)
Environmental Racism
- Form of discrimination against minority groups and people from poor countries who are subjected to a disproportionate share of environmental hazards and polluting industries
- In Canada; “Treadmill of destruction”
Principles of Environmental Justice
- To guarantee the right of environmental protection
- to prevent harm before it occurs
- to shift the burden of proof to polluters
- to not make it necessary to prove intent by those who discriminate
- To redress existing inequalities
