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Definitions
What is the definition of crimino...,
What is the definition of crimino...,
What is the definition of crimino...
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Week Eight - Brain Development
Anti social behaviour is not unusual,
Over the last 50 years researcher...,
Babies
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Week Eight - Brain Structures
Why are we examining brain structure,
The prefrontal cortexexplanation,
The two sides of the brainexplana...
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Week Eight - Physical Characteristics Of Offenders
Mesomorphy and testosteroneexplan...,
Fight or flight explanations
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Week Four - Crimes Of The Century
What were levels of recorded crim...,
When did levels of recorded crime...,
What happens almost every year fr...
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Week Eight - Genes
Genesgeneral information,
Behavioural geneticswhat does beh...,
Behavioural geneticsexplanations
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Week Eight - Evolution
The most useful way to begin look...,
Information about evolution,
What are some examples of the evo...
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Week Eight - History Of Biological Theories Of Criminal Behaviour
Since the time of the earliest su...,
Ancient greece,
Medieval europe
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Week Eight - Comparing Classicism And Positivism
Classicism object of study,
Positivismobject of study,
Classicismnature of offender
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Week Five - Left Realism
What is the political context of ...,
What are the key ideas of left re...
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Week Five - Right Realism
What is the political context of ...,
What does right realism believe t...,
What are the key ideas of right r...
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Week Five - Realism
Realism rejects,
What are the key ideas of realism,
What are the two forms of realism
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Week Five - School Of Thought: Positivism
Quetelet,
What does positivism search for,
When was positivism challenged
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Week Five - School Of Thought: Classicism
What was the thinking about what ...,
It was the first attempt at,
What were the key ideas of classi...
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Week Five - Enlightenment Period
What was the enlightenment period,
What were the key theories of the...,
When did crime replace sin
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Week Five - The Theory Story
What is the first part of the the...,
What is the second part of the th...,
What is the third part of the the...
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Week Five - Broad Positions On Crime
What are the three broad position...,
What are the three broad position...,
Naturalistic perspectives
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Week Five - Explaining Crime and Questions
What is crime about,
What is theorisation about,
What does knowledge result from
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Week Five - Why Are Theories Important?
What are some of the reasons why ...
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Week Four - Cyber Crime
Increase in crime
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Week Four - Data On Offenders
What is the offenders index,
What happened by males 53rd birthday,
Self report studies
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Week Four - Big Rise In Anti-muslim Incidents
What happened to offline incident...,
How does hate crime impact indivi...
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Week Four - Local Victimisation Surveys
What are some examples of local v...
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Week Four - Crime Surveys
What are maguire s 2007 5 main me...
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Week Four - Limitations of Victimisation Surveys
What are the limitations of victi...
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Week Four - Victimisation Surveys
What was the name of the first uk...,
In what years where the british c...,
Increase in sample size
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Week Four - Limitations Of Official Statistics
What are the limitations of offic...
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Week Four - What If Theres More Sexual Violence Now, Not Just Reports Of It?
Number of rape claims,
Number of convictions for rape,
Number of adults reporting being ...
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Week Four - Recording Offences
Reporting an offence is no guaran...,
What percentage of crimes are rec...
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Week Four - Reporting Different Offences
Which offences are likely to be r...,
Why do others not report victim t...
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Week Four - Legislation
Creates new offences,
Repeals old offences
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Week Four - Growth In Certain Crimes
Criminal damage,
Violent crimes
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Week Four - Sources Of Crime Data
How many official sources of crim...,
What are the two official sources...,
Police recorded crime
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Week Four - Brief History
When was adolphe quetelet born,
When did judicial statistics emerge,
When did criminal statistics emerge
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Week Four - Homicide Data
What has happened to homicides si...,
We must take care,
How many homicides were there bet...
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Week Four - Police Recorded Crime
What are crimes recorded by the p...,
What are police recorded crimes u...,
Where does the home office receiv...
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Week Four - Crime Trends
What happened to levels of record...,
What else happened,
However
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Week Nine - Introduction
What do we mean by psychological ...,
What are the psychological explan...
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Week Nine - Psychodynamic Theory
When did the psychodynamic theory...,
What is the psychodynamic theory ...,
What is the key idea of the psych...
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Week Seventeen - What Is Class/ Does Class Still Matter?
Does class still matter,
What is class
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Week Seventeen - The Great British Crime Survey
Details about the survey,
Findings of the survey,
Method of the survey
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Week Seventeen - Current Directions In Psychological Science
Social class is more than just ho...,
People from lower classes,
If you don t have resources and e...
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Week Seventeen - Explaining Class
Three approaches,
Functionalism,
Libertarianism
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Week Seventeen - How Is Power Exercised?
How is power exercised
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Week Seventeen - Crime and Class
Capitalism emphasises,
General
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Week Seventeen - Why Does Capitalism Cause Crime
Capital accumulation sustains cap...,
So what do you do with this human...,
Alternatively
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Week Seventeen - Idealism And Realism
Left idealism,
Left realism
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Week Seventeen - Relative Deprivation
Relative deprivation is conventio...,
But deprivation is also a gaze do...
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Week Seventeen - White Collar Crime
What is white collar crime,
What does it tend to be subject to,
What is white collar crime regula...
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Week Seventeen - Steve Tombs
Hale et al 2011,
Formal politics and law,
Zero tolerance
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Week Seventeen - Business Crime
There is a perception that busine...,
What we talking about
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Week Seventeen - The Rest
Breaking laws vs causing harm,
The establishment
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Week Eighteen - Corston Review
What happened in march 2007,
What did the corston review recom...
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Week Eighteen - Population
Population between 1993 and 2005,
What has happened since then
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Week Nineteen - The Problem And Offenders First Children Second?
Young peoples behaviour now compa...,
Crime survey for england wales 20...,
One of the measurements of anti s...
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Week One - What is Criminology, Criminal Justice and Crime?
What is the definition of crimino...,
What is the definition of crimino...,
What is the definition of crimino...
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Week Two - Why Study the History of Crime?
What are the two reasons for stud...,
What is the first reason for stud...,
What is the second reason for stu...
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Secretary Of State For Justice
Jack straw,
Kenneth clarke,
Chris grayling
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Week Two - Pre-'Enlightenment'
What was law enforcement like in ...,
How was social discipline maintai...,
How were people punished in the 1...
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Week Two - Witch Hunting
What is the definition of witch hunt,
What is the definition of moral p...,
What is the definition of moral p...
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Week Two - The Bloody Code
How many crimes carried the death...,
How many crimes carried the death...,
What are some examples of crimes ...
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Week Two - The Case of Captain Kidd
When was captain kidd executed,
Why did kidd hope for reprieve,
What happened on the day of capta...
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Week Two - Enlightenment Period
What was the enlightenment period,
What was the impact of the enligh...,
What were the ideas of the enligh...
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Week Two - Thinkers
John locke,
Thomas hobbes leviathan,
Rousseau
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Week Two - Public Questioning
What was public questioning,
What happened by the late 18th ce...,
What did gattrell 1994 say about ...
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Week Two - Beccaria and Classicism
What are the main points from bec...,
What did beccaria and classicism ...,
What does classical criminology e...
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Week Two - Beccaria's Twelve Principles of Justice
What is beccarias first principle...,
What is beccarias second principl...,
What is beccarias third principle...
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Week Two - Foucault
The changes from the late 18th ce...,
What sort of a society was being ...,
What was the public ritual of exe...
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Week Two - State Crime
Britain destroyed records of colo...,
What did ian cobain say in cruel ...,
When did the british archives com...
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Week Two - Adolescence
When was the term adolescence used,
How was childhood extended,
Young people now seen as a problem
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Week Two - It's Okay, As Long as the State Does It
What happened in england in 1955,
Why was ruth ellis sentenced to d...,
Which prison was ruth ellis hange...
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Week Three - A Brief History of the Death Penalty
According to gattrell 1997 what h...,
Who were the three controversial ...,
What happened in 2015
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Week Three- Public Attitudes Towards the Death Penalty
What happened in 2015,
What did the british social attit...,
When was the death penalty legall...
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Week Three - International Picture
What happened since 1991,
But despite the fall in use of th...
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Week Three - Why the Death Penalty is Wrong
Why is the death penalty wrong,
Denial of human rights,
Its irreversible and mistake happen
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Week Four - Incidents or Crimes?
Knowing what gets recorded depend...,
Knowing what gets recorded depend...,
Knowing what gets recorded depend...
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Week Eight - Contemporary Work
Tremblay and original sin thesis
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Week Eight - 'Sexual Offending Runs in Families'
Langstrom et al 2015
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Week Eight - Hysteria About Sex Crimes
According to shriver 2015
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Week Nine - Behaviourism and Social Learning Theory
When did behaviourism and social ...,
Freud vs other theorists,
What does behaviourism rely on
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Week Nine - Rational Choice
Connections between two psycholog...,
Connections between two psycholog...,
Applied as part of situational cr...
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Week Nine - Cognitive Theories
When did cognitive theories emerge,
The majority of research conducte...,
One prominent idea surrounding th...
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Week Ten - General
What was criminology in the 2nd h...,
What are the sociological theories,
Criminology has tended to focus o...
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Week Ten - Anomie
Who is the main individual of thi...,
Society has a reality apart from ...,
When society loses balance it lea...
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Week Ten - Strain
Who is the main individual of thi...,
The most dominant cultural goal,
The appetites of individuals are ...
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Week Ten - Social Disorganisation
Whose work was underpinned by this,
Industrialisation and urbanisation,
Like durkheim
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Week Ten - Control Theory
Who is the main individual of thi...,
Crime is normal,
Travis hirschi why don t they do ...
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Week Ten - Conflict
Crime is understood as conflict b...,
What is the real function of the ...,
Who is the main individual of thi...
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Week Ten - Labelling
What does the labelling theory fo...,
Who is the main individual of thi...,
Amplification theory
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Week Ten - Subcultures
Who is the main individual of thi...,
What was subcultural theory influ...,
However unlike merton cohen was i...
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Week Ten - Seduction of Crime
Who is the main individual of thi...,
Crime is viewed as,
Katz 1988
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Week Fifteen - What is Gender?
What is the definition of sex,
What is the definition of gender,
What is the definition of transge...
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Week Fifteen - Gender Differences in Offending
Gender and crime,
Whose crime are we talking about
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Week Fifteen - Men and Crime
Historically,
The masculinity turn,
Research focused on male involvem...
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Week Fifteen - Women and Crime
Early theories about women crime,
Developing the theoriesw i thomas...,
Developing the theoriesotto polla...
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Week Sixteen - Race, Ethnicity and Victimisation
What sort of category is race,
What sort of category is ethnicity,
What is racism
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Week Sixteen - Race, Ethnicity and the Police
Stop and search,
Suspicionless searches,
The secret policeman
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Week Sixteen - Race, Ethnicity and the Penal System
Ethnicity and the penal system fi...,
Prison population 2008 and 2012,
Youth custodial population
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Week Eighteen - Non-violent Offences
Most women entering prison under ...
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Week Eighteen - Length of Sentences vs. Family Impacts
Short sentences,
Child separated from mother figur...,
Parental imprisonment approximate...
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Week Eighteen - Links with Abuse
53 of women in prison,
46 of women in prison
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Week Eighteen - Links with Drugs
Drug offences,
Committing offences to get drug m...,
Committing offfences to support s...
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Week Eighteen - Employment After Prison
Employment 2013 14,
General
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Week Eighteen - Chivalry Thesis
Pollak 1950,
Statistics
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Week Eighteen - Double Deviance
Heidensohn 1985 has criticised po...,
Heidensohns ideas,
Worrall 1990
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Week Eighteen - Organisations
Womens breakout,
Anawim
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Week Eighteen - Links with Mental Health
Self harm,
Suicide,
Treatment for mental health
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Week Nineteen - There is a Country in the EU
There is a country in the eu,
The number of recorded offences b...,
The number of reprimands warnings...
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Week Nineteen - Age of Criminal Responsibility
What is meant by the age of crimi...,
Belgium,
Holand
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Week Nineteen - Why?
Why
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Week Nineteen - Children in Custody
Secure childrens homes,
Secure training centres,
Prisons young offender institutions
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Week Nineteen - Vulnerability
Vulnerability
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Week Nineteen - Child Deaths in Custody
Gareth myatt,
Adam rickwood,
Deaths in custody since 1990
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Week Nineteen - General
Participation in youth justice,
Education,
Secure centre training rules
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Week Twenty - Definitions
What is philosophy,
What is punishment
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Week Twenty - The Philosophy of Punishment
The philosophy of punishment
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Week Twenty - Punishing Crimes and Response to Other Wrong Doing
Punishing crimes,
Response to other wrong doing
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Week Twenty - Retribution
Retributive emotions,
Reciprocity,
General
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Week Twenty - Deterrence
1866,
General,
Doubts about deterrence
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Week Twenty - Rehabilitation
Ambitiousness,
General
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Week Twenty - Summary
Punishment has several purposes,
Punishment has several meanings,
General
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Week Twenty - The Rest
Punishment and authority,
Emotions,
Emotional reactions to crime
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Week Twenty Four - Anonymity
What is anonymity in criminal cases,
In court how is anonymity protected,
In the adult magistrates court an...
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Week Twenty Four - Academic Study of the Media
Academic study of the media
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Week Twenty Four - Newsworthiness
Billions of simultaneous events i...,
Two main approaches to understand...,
Twelve news values structure crim...
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Week Twenty Four - Content Analysis
Content analysis
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Week Twenty Four - Media as Criminogenic? and the rest
Criminogenic,
Two competing perspectives,
Surette 2012
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Week Twenty Four - Media Today
General,
Where do we get our news from
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Week Twenty Five - What is a victim and the ideal victim?
What is a victim,
Who is an ideal victim,
Six key factors in rising public ...
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Week Twenty Six
What is politics,
Nothing works,
Declining faith in rehabilitation
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