What are some of the basic assumptions of cultural criminology?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: [key points to be made]
*Statistics not as helpful as understanding the essence of behavior, why people do things
*Focus on interaction of cultural and subcultural dynamics of crime and crime control
*Crime is situated in daily life and its expressions but mediated by crime control industry
*Media used by agents of government to control images and social perspectives
*Subjective interpretations create images of crime controlled by those who benefit
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