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Crime and Violence: Forces for Good or Evil?

Political Activism: Changes, Challenges and Campaigning

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Groups not gangs

Stephen Jones (2000) in ‘Understanding violent crime’, chapter 5

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Collective Behaviour

Rumour Topical importance Uncertainty Personal anxiety Credulity

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Sarah Payne

Families flee after anti-paedophile mob violence

The Guardian

Wednesday August 9, 2000

BBC

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/872436.stm

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Social Movements

Dissatisfaction Legitimacy Organisation Action

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animal rights movement penal reform movement

Outsiders and insiders

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Methods

Access the media Directly appeal to the public Demonstrate Take direct action

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Vested interests intersect with political imperatives to conceive the need for a campaign.

The design attracts the public’s attention and provokes a response within the target audience.

The message determines the transmission of information.

Public or political opinion is influenced or behaviour is modified.