... usually the lower economic status has more reward than risk. The fourth proposition emphasizes the likelihood of authority of legal norms increases as the similarity between the cultural and behavioral aspects of authorities' increases (Turk, 1969). Law enforcement as a whole comes to an understanding ... about legal norms when their cultural and behavioral aspects are also on the same page. The fifth proposition says that the lower the power ... law enforcement will be in that social structure. The last proposition of cultural conflict states that the more individuals that are breakin...

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... bad, positive or negative, moral or evil" (Butler Alison, 2015). The extent of influence depends, to some degree, on characteristics of the different types of mediums (Weitzer and Kubrin 2004). Jeffres (1986) defines a medium as "any device that carries messages between peoplebut what makes a medium a ... , television news, radio and various fictional accounts and presentations of crime and society gives us knowledge about crimes, victims and criminals. Each of these types of media will regularly show exaggerated images of violence. They offer us a skewed image of the crime and a far fro...

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