CRM/LAW C7 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cultivation Theory, Medicalization, Yehoshua Sagi
22 Mar 2018
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Think critically about what we know about crime, criminal justice, crime control more generally in light of what media tells us. Treat criminal justice system as a system authorized to punish. Understand how criminalization authorizes state sanctioned punishment. Media portrayals of babes in cages : women are predominantly white, there is a disproportionate focus on violence crimes by women, there is underrepresentation of women as mothers (of minor children). When there is a focus on motherhood, the focus is on: How mothers feel about their children, and the effect of imprisonment on both mother and child. Most people don"t study prisons, and they watch the media. Mixed methods analysis to examine local television news in the selinas/ Monterey dma over a 2 month period in 2012 salinas/ monterey dma includes fox, cbs, nbc, and abc local affiliate. Know the question, media portrayal, what they find, what is the content. What method did they use to display data.
