CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mens Rea, Mental Disorder, Regulatory Offence

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CRCJ 1000
• Professor: Jeffrey Monaghan

Document Summary

Media is one of the central ways we communicate about crime. Media generates certain types of violence and behaviours that get reproduced in crime. News media ( most often what we are talking about unless specified otherwise. ) Media as a social structure: especially news media. 1- superficiality: superficial look at a certain even or circumstance, hard to have detailed history, hard to sum the event in 500 words. 2- sensationalism: the more gory the more exceptional the crime the more in the media. Ex: hear about homicides all of the time in reality they don"t occur that often 550 in a year in canada. The media is out to sell newspaper but in truth society wants this type of information there is a market for this type of information it is not media itself but society itself. Media consumers take in information and mimics this information ( copy cat crimes) we learn through watching we are passive audiences.