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RELATIVE DEPRIVATION Lea and Young argue that frustration from this disparity between expectation and reality of lifestyles. ABOUT TODAY?  ACID ATTACKS  KNIFE CRIME  MOPED CRIME  GRIMES MEDIA  SOCIAL MEDIA THE CONCEPT OF SOCIAL EXCLUSION More than income poverty shorthand term for what can happen when people or areas face a combination of linked problems such as unemployment. LEFT REALISM ORIGINS OF CRIME  Relative deprivation  Marginalisation  Subculture JOCK YOUNG, SOCIAL CHANGE AND CRIME Jock Young (1997) also has a generic theory to explain the recent growth in crime he argues late modernity is making crime worse in several ways.  Greater uncertainty and instability in most life aspects  Less consensus LEFT REALISM PROBLEMS Recognition of multiple causes of crime, focus’ on offender, not all those in relative deprivation turn to crime.

POST COLONIAL CRIMINOLOGY

To date, post-colonial theory has had greater impact in areas such as literature, politics, law that it has in criminology. GLOBAL CRIMINOLOGY Profound impact of global we’ve been global for a long-time criminology reflects western ideas. ADMINISTRATVIE AND BIG DATA CRIMINOLOGY Overview: the advent of ‘big data; and machine learning algorithms is predictive to transform how we work and think. Specifically, about capacity of big data analysis. ADMINISTRATIVE CRIMINOLOGY Graham Farrell v Keith Hayward Revisionist history of home office BIG DATA Big data technology has overlapped with criminology in 2 main areas: Big data is used as a type of data in criminological research Big data analytics as employed as a predictive tool to guide criminal justice decisions and strategies. 5 WAYS TO MODIFY A SITUATION  Increasing the effort: the offender carries out the crime  Increasing the risk: the offender must face in completing the crime.  Reducing the rewards  Removing excuses

FORMS OF CRIME PREVENTION Temporal patterns

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POP AND SCP SIMILARITIES Both are preventive approaches – one is defined within policing the other isn’t. Both originated in the 1970s Pop= USA Scp = UK

SCP Implemented by an agency with a crime disorder or problem. Origin crime theory, focus: crime and disorder. POP Focus: community problems implement by police widely implemented. Origins police management theory. THEORETICAL CONTEXT OF CULTURAL CRIMINOLOGY Began in late 80s and 90s. Different and social, political, and cultural context. New right, neoliberalism, individual responsibility. Culture on control. Consumer capitalism. CRIME MEDIA CULTURE Individual meaning- making in-cultural and socioeconomic role of mass media....