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Media, Crime and Criminal Justice Preparations
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Created: July 27, 2003
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CRMJ 490-01: Media, Crime, and Criminal JusticeYou will be held accountable for purposes of grading for the readings and exercises listed here. There will be no "testing." That means that you will not have to live in anxious anticipation of what we will ask and how much you will have to know. Instead, we will provide weekly discussion questions, lectures, essays, and concepts we feel that you should know as a result of having taken this course. You will assure us of that learning and receive your grade for the questions and concepts about which you choose to write and talk with us. In addition you will find detailed explanations and examples on our grading policies in the first week's reading.* * * * * Week 15: Week of Decemer 7, 2003
Topic: Media, Crime and Criminal Justice: Theory, Policy, Practice Revisited
Preparatory Readings:
- Surette. Media, crime, and criminal justice.
- Merlo and Benekos. What's wrong with the criminal justice system: Ideology, Politics and the Media.
- Potter and Kappeler. Constructing crime.
Lecture related links:
--- Sociology of Knowledge Files . --- Check out this link -- Ray Surette's website ( found by Bettie Poole).
Concepts to be covered:
Discussion Questions:
- Based on everything we've covered during the semester. what is the relationship between "theory, policy, practice" when it comes to the mass media, crime and criminal justice? Why.
- What "should" the relationship between media, crime and criminal justice be? Why.
Suggested Creative Activities:
- Bring in an example which best illustrates what the relationship between the media, crime and criminal justice ought to be.
Recommended Readings:
- Jarret Lovell. Good Cop/Bad Cop.
- Bernard Goldberg. Arrogance: Rescuing America from the Media Elite.
- Paul Krugman. The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century.
- James Gleick. Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything.
Media Sources:
Left/Right Perspectives - Cursor - New York Times
Arts and Letters Daily - The Economist - The Guardian
Wall Street Journal -The Weekly Standard - The Nation
Los Angeles Times - Chicago Tribune - The Washington Post
Cursor's Al Jazeera Archive - Ha'aretz - Palestine Monitor
Indymedia - BBC News - New Profile - Progressive Sociologists Network