Which of the following is not one of Barak’s (1994) aims of “news-making criminology”?

a. demystifying images of crime and punishment
b. allowing criminologists to deploy their knowledge and show themselves to be unreliable voices in public policy
c. call on criminologists to develop the necessary media skills to participate in dialogues on crime and justice
d. strive to affect public attitudes and discourses about crime and bring about public policy based on structural and historical analyses of institutional development


Ans: B

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