Explain what is meant by the social reality of crime
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: [key points to be made]
*Quinney's intergrative theory combines pluralist conflict with social interactionism, labeling, differential association, and social learning theory
*Hard to trust research because reality is just our own perceptions
*Philosophical idealism
*Crime if product of reaction – most importantly, that of legitimate authorities
*Political power to create law mostly targets poor and lower class
*Crime is a product of those legal definitions created for us by political powers
*Media constructs social reality of non-crime as well as crime
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What will be an ideal response?
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