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History of Crime

History of Crime. Class 1. Administrative. Athletes Glossary Cell Phone reminder. Review. Crime is a social construct Crime myths are useful to the media and the government Media and government not trying to mislead the public. Today. Processes of Stereotype and Myth Construction

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History of Crime

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  1. History of Crime Class 1

  2. Administrative • Athletes • Glossary • Cell Phone reminder

  3. Review • Crime is a social construct • Crime myths are useful to the media and the government • Media and government not trying to mislead the public

  4. Today • Processes of Stereotype and Myth Construction • Historical Aspects of Crime

  5. I. Processes of Stereotype and Myth Construction • Creating Criminal Stereotypes • Presentation of Opinion as Fact • Masking Opinions through Sources • Value-loaded Terminology • Confusing Correlation with Causation

  6. I. Processes of Stereotype and Myth Construction • Information Management • Undocumented Sources of Authority • Selective Interviewing

  7. II. Historical Aspects of Crime • Can you identify behavior which is now a crime but wasn’t in an earlier time period? • Can you identify behavior which is now legal but was a crime in an earlier time period? • What causes such changes in what we consider to be criminal behavior?

  8. II. Historical Aspects of Crime • Early Colonial Massachusetts – Jesuits forbidden to enter except by ship wreck or accident • 1905 illegal for whites and blacks to play checkers together in any public park in Birmingham, Alabama

  9. Next Time • Continue to discuss historical aspects of crime

  10. History of Crime Class 2

  11. Administrative • Remember can make-up or retake quizzes on final • Remember you need to keep track of assignments

  12. Review • Reviewed the processes of crime stereotype and myth construction • Identified activities that are now crimes but weren’t in the past • Identified activities that are no longer crimes but used to be • Why crime changes

  13. Today • Relationship of Crime and Sin • Capital Punishment • Who were the criminals?

  14. I. Relationship of Crime and Sin • Blasphemy was often a crime • Heresy was a more serious crime

  15. I. Relationship of Crime and Sin • Victimless crimes against public morality • Examples of contemporary laws that are derived from notions of sin • Are all such crimes victimless?

  16. II. Capital Punishment • Used much more extensively in the colonial period than currently • Some of the offenses were the same, especially murder • Rape was also routinely a capital offense • Benefit of clergy • Impact of capital punishment

  17. II. Capital Punishment • Adultery was a capital crime in colonial Massachusetts • Whites and Blacks • Sodomy and Buggery were capital crimes • Recidivists subject to death penalty

  18. III. Who Were the Criminals • Overwhelmingly male • Overwhelmingly lower class • Religious, Ethnic and Racial Minorities

  19. III. Who Were the Criminals • Who are the people prosecuted and convicted today? • Do the poor and the lower class really commit more crimes? • What kinds of crimes do the well-off commit? • How do we treat those crimes? Why?

  20. Next Time • Begin discussion of crime waves

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