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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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of the community
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?Such #rogrammes re#eat imagined
connections et2een 2elfare reci#ients and
moral la8ity0 greed0 and even criminality@
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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
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CRIMINALS?
CRIMINAL 7%STICE
BA (HONS) SOCIAL CARE
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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 )$lnerable&
4. re they in danger&
*. re they )ictims&
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F%RTHER READIN6 AND
SO%RCES OF INFORMATION
ilcher0 -ane0 and Ste#hen +agg 1GG Thatcher’s &hildren?$ !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