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‘POVERTY

PORN’?

REPRESENTATIONS OF

POVERTY IN THE MEDIA

BA (HONS) SOCIAL CARE

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SESSION AIMS

This sessions aims to:

• Introduce you to university level BA (Hons) Social Care

teaching– focussing on the su!ect of "#overty #orn$ and to

consider this in relation to studying Social Care%

• &et a "taster$ of BA (Hons) Social Care at 'anchester

'etro#olitan niversity

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BENEFITS STREET: BROADCAST 2014AND FILMED IN 2013 BY CHANNEL 4

        /http://www.channel4.com/programmes/benefits-street

BENEFITS STREET

2: BROADCAST 11t M!" 201#

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= #ositive re#resentations of

the community

= negative re#resentations

of the community

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?Such #rogrammes re#eat imagined

connections et2een 2elfare reci#ients and

moral la8ity0 greed0 and even criminality@

(-ensen0 *.1/)

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Imagined connections -

Greed, moral laxity, criminality

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CONCL%DIN6 THO%6HTS:

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F%RTHER READIN6 AND

SO%RCES OF INFORMATION

'ac

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CRIMINALS?

CRIMINAL 7%STICE

BA (HONS) SOCIAL CARE

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Child

 

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". #hat do yo$ thin% sho$ld be done to help

these two children&

'. #hat do yo$ thin% might happen to them&

(. re they )$lnerable&

4. re they in danger&

*. re they )ictims&

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+o$r cond$ct was both c$nning and )erywic%ed $stice orland Independent "00(

the 1aily 2tar offered a 3', reward 5to

trap beasts who %illed little ames5. G$ardian

arch, '"

1etecti)es who inter)iewed the boys calledthem e)il frea%s of nat$re, who had %illed for a

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F%RTHER READIN6 AND

SO%RCES OF INFORMATION

ilcher0 -ane0 and Ste#hen +agg 1GG Thatcher’s &hildren?$ !olitics%

&hildhood and Society in the '()*s and '((*s sychology ress

&reen0 ?Suitale ehicles: Draming Blame and -ustice

+hen Children 4ill a Child@ &rime% +edia% lt#re$ ,n "nternational

o#rnal  / (*): 1GE–**. doi:1.11EE1E/1=G..>.G**>

Hay0 Colin 1GG= ?'oiliJation Through Inter#ellation : -ames Bulger0

-uvenile Crime and the Construction of a 'oral anic@ Social . /egal

St#dies / (*): 1GE–** doi:1.11EE.G/GG=../..*.

4ing0 'ichael 1GG= ?The -ames Bulger 'urder Trial: 'oral