Claims Making Slide- self made

What is the capital of France? (example question)

Paris (correct)
London
Berlin
Madrid

what is epistemology

it is: how do we know about what is real or not. what methods can we use to generate knowledge

what is ontology

this asks what is real, and what exists. can take the view of a realist or constructivist.

what does it mean for crime to be a social construction

it means it is not a natural, or given phenomenon. it is not objective and not based on concensus Signup and view all the answers

crime is subjective and based on concensus

True (A) Signup and view all the answers

crime is not relative

False (B) Signup and view all the answers

How do certain things become a problem

through claims-making. Signup and view all the answers

what is claims-making

a form of social interaction in the course of which demands are made “that something be done about some putative condition. Signup and view all the answers

Who is usually the claims-makers

somoene of athrity, or someone that is deemed worthy, people whos voices can be heard, though social media makes it easier for anybody to be a claims maker Signup and view all the answers

"an authoritative or challanging request" or a "demand of a right or supposed right"

a claim Signup and view all the answers

who does the slides say is a claimsmaker

activists, members of news media, professional, government agencies, politicians Signup and view all the answers

who introduced the concept of moral entrepreneurs

becker Signup and view all the answers

what is moral entrepeneurs

it is a particular kind of claims-makers. Someone steps up and says there is a problem, here is my evidence (stats, story, etc) it is serious, and we need to do something about it. They might invoke a higher power, religious authority. Signup and view all the answers

what do moral entrepreneus use

they use rhetorical strategies to appeal and persuade audiences; stories, exmaple, emotions Signup and view all the answers

what view is crime as a social constuction based off of

symbolic interactionism Signup and view all the answers

in short terms, explain the opium act in canada

anti-asian riots. burning down of their parts of the city. criminializing opium through claim makers, ulitmately a racist regime. Signup and view all the answers

explain the role of values in the criminialization of opium

it was based on racist values to maintain racial purity, protect the women, and prevent moral decay and moral degeneracy Signup and view all the answers

as a whole, what role do values play in regards to crime

These values don’t “cause” people to act—they're used rhetorically to make the argument emotionally and morally compelling. It becomes less about facts and more about appealing to what society sees as "right" or "important." Signup and view all the answers

in a social constructivist perspective, values play the role of being the determinants of criminal behaviours

False (B) Signup and view all the answers

who were the moral entrepreneus in the case of the super predator phenomenon

academics, and the media, Signup and view all the answers

what was the evidence to support the claim makers in the super predators video

Statistics, science, and numbers in which you can't argue with. Also compelling stories. The headline news story as an example of this story . Signup and view all the answers

when it comes to the discussion question: are drugs a problem today? what was discussed

they are primarily seen as a health issue, and focused on harm reduction rather than criminality Signup and view all the answers

what was it that made wife beating a problem in the 1970's?

social activism. Signup and view all the answers

how does a strict constructivist explain problems and phenomena

they focus just on what is real and how the phenomenon is constructed,It’s not about proving if the problem is "true"—it’s about understanding how society creates the idea of that problem. Signup and view all the answers

what is a contextual constructivist on the other hand

involves both the process of construction but also reality.This means they look at how a problem is socially constructed, but also take into account that there are real-world facts or events involved. Signup and view all the answers

what is ontological gerrymeandering

when someone selectively treats some things as socially constructed and other things as objectively real, depending on what helps their argument. Signup and view all the answers