CRCJ 1000 Lecture 3: Criminology Week 3 September 22nd.docx

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

Document Summary

*name, student number, the course number and section, and teachers name on cover sheet http://prezi. com/vgs95bth_u58/wk3-media-and-the-criminal-justice-system/? utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy. We live in a media saturated society consistently learning about crime through the media critique: 1. The medium that is used to present the issues of crime is very short (in a newspaper) to describe what actually occurred, they don"t go into the complexity of the crime itself 2. The problem frame" the most dominate media follows this kind of focus it produces social construction ex. The bad guys: stereotypes of people ex. Media frames: london 2011 *video* pay attention to the questions the anchor asks darcus (slide 10/11) there have been some progress into the stop and search policies that has led to the riot itself (?) Narrative structure within the the problem frame" makes reading crime novels easy to read, there is a clear protagonists (the good guy) and a clear antagonist(s) (the bad guy)