Crime and the media?

Question

hey i have a sociology question

"Compare and contrast the three main perspectives on crime and the media."

what are the three main perspeectives.. i really dont kno.. though i prob should

can some1 help me?

Answer 1

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=NE7fy...

according to this book the three perspectives are: conservative, liberal and radical

Conservative is lock em all up

Liberal is let them all out

and radical is  let's scrap all the laws so there are no criminals

Answer 2

It sounds as if you missed the lecture or class where the instructor talked about this. Better ask a fellow student.

Answer 3

There aren't "three main perspectives on crime and the media" that many people know and agree upon. That sounds like a question that is referring to an opinion of a specific source, like a text book. It's not like Newton's laws of physics.

Answer 4

Maybe it is asking about three differently theorietical perspectives which in my course and most sociological courses are; constructionist (symbolic interactionist, sometimes seen as liberal), structural-functionalist (sometimes seen as conservative) & conflict theory (sometimes seens as radical.

Because I don't know the exact nature of the questions I could be wrong. But I teach Social Problems and have 10 years of higher education (in sociology) behind me. When I read your question that is what I assumed.