CRIM330 - Tutorial 5 10 am by Daniel Botha https://padlet.com/botha_danielcraig/lkbupk9iobjs en-us 2018-04-03 23:42:18 UTC 2018-04-25 20:12:14 UTC hello@padlet.com Tips botha_danielcraig https://padlet.com/botha_danielcraig/lkbupk9iobjs/wish/252821183 I can provide specific sections and page numbers for guidance if you really need them.
Focus on the Economic status and Gender status that Campbell uses to explain car crime in Blackbird Leys]]> 2018-04-18 01:35:39 UTC https://padlet.com/botha_danielcraig/lkbupk9iobjs/wish/252821183 Tips botha_danielcraig https://padlet.com/botha_danielcraig/lkbupk9iobjs/wish/252821260 I can provide specific sections and page numbers for guidance if you really need them.
To answer this question, you might want to look at some of the interventions that aimed to provide opportunities for young men to race old cars - what cultural factors resulted in the ultimate failure of these initiatives? Look at:
- Car culture
- Consumer culture
- Culture of expressive crime]]> 2018-04-18 01:36:04 UTC https://padlet.com/botha_danielcraig/lkbupk9iobjs/wish/252821260 Tips botha_danielcraig https://padlet.com/botha_danielcraig/lkbupk9iobjs/wish/252821340 Is the need for men to express masculinity eliminated when young men have legitimate jobs in the car manufacturing industry?]]> 2018-04-18 01:36:26 UTC https://padlet.com/botha_danielcraig/lkbupk9iobjs/wish/252821340 Tips botha_danielcraig https://padlet.com/botha_danielcraig/lkbupk9iobjs/wish/252821403 - Riot police
- Trax pilot scheme (p. 36)
- Traffic calming (p. 46)
What are the alternatives? What would you do to curb car crime?]]> 2018-04-18 01:36:49 UTC https://padlet.com/botha_danielcraig/lkbupk9iobjs/wish/252821403 botha_danielcraig https://padlet.com/botha_danielcraig/lkbupk9iobjs/wish/255428073
·         Economic status - Loss of local industry (pressed steel and car production) – directly resulting in loss of jobs and an increase in (male) unemployment. Loss of employment reduces legitimate opportunities to gain reputation (p.30). They fear being ‘invisible’. The joy-riding gives them respect in the community (from most, but not all residents; and the media, who offer to pay for their performances). There is some overlap her with Anderson’s ‘code of the streets’. Black men gaining respect through interpersonal violence. The respect is negotiated via car crime specifically in Blackbird Leys because this was the historical industry here.


·         Gender - seen as social relations between men and women – are structured in such a way that masculine identity is associated with power. Faced with economic powerlessness (due to lack of employment opportunities), (some) men seek to accomplish masculinity by expressing their power elsewhere e.g. through car crime. (power through their control of performance cars, which is a ‘masculine’ fetish (p.45)


·         Race – (see p31) Campbell’s chapter does not specifically address how race promotes vehicle crime, but, if race is responsible for discriminatory employment practices, historically, and policing, contemporaneously, it has contributed to social exclusion in Blackbird Leys; and this promotes strain.


Poor relation tensions with police, historically, are likely to have contributed to the resistance and challenge when police begin to intervene.

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·         Interventions that aim to provide opportunities for young men to race old cars have not been entirely successful because they fail to address the cultural aspects of joy riding


(a) old bangers do not have the same appeal as performance cars (car culture)


(b) if part of the appeal of theft is the ‘ownership’ of a fast car, this is missing from the intervention project (consumer culture); and


(c) if part of the appeal is the risk and fun linked to the illegal aspects of joy riding, the intervention does not provide for this either (expressive / sensual nature of crime).

]]> 2018-04-25 20:11:36 UTC https://padlet.com/botha_danielcraig/lkbupk9iobjs/wish/255428184 botha_danielcraig https://padlet.com/botha_danielcraig/lkbupk9iobjs/wish/255428347 Her acknowledgement of the ‘joy’ in joy-riding aligns with cultural criminology, but on balance her explanation is mainly structural.

It is conventional ideas about masculinity – rather than non-conventional (subcultural) – that drive men’s behaviour in Blackbird Leys. Conventional values are expressed and accomplished through crime/deviance because men in Blackbird Leys cannot achieve their goals in more legitimate ways e.g. by working in the car industry, owning a performance vehicle, or driving one on a race course (note the reference to ‘Silverstone’ p.38. This is a local racecourse used by formula one drivers)

Her feminist approach seems to intersect with strain theory (non-conventional means to achieve conventional goals)

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