by John Amy | Mar 18, 2014 | Crime & Media
Can you identify any examples of ‘folk devils’ and ‘moral panics’ that have happened in recent years or that are happening now? Working in small groups, choose a possible example of a folk devil and then investigate it through newspapers and the internet. Possible...
by John Amy | Mar 18, 2014 | Crime & Media
Read the item below and then answer the questions that follow. In November 2006, Richard Thomas, the government’s information commissioner, said that fears that the UK would “sleep-walk into a surveillance society” have now become a reality....
by John Amy | Mar 18, 2014 | Crime & Media
Find out about Gary McKinnon. What did he ‘hack’ into? What was the result?
by John Amy | Mar 18, 2014 | Crime & Media
Working as a group, begin by reading: How we are being watched. Each member of the group should find out about one of the following surveillance techniques. What sort of information about you might each of the techniques reveal? CCTV Number plate recognition RFID tags...
by John Amy | Mar 18, 2014 | Crime & Media
Immediacy; dramatisation; personalisation; any of the news values listed on page 119. Violent crime is over-represented; police success is exaggerated; victims and criminals are seen as older and more middle-class than those who appear in the official statistics;...
