CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Death Of Eric Garner, Rodney King, Moral Panic
13 Apr 2016
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Suggest most people in our society don"t get arrested or go to jail. Only knowledge we have of criminal jusice system is through the media. Media inluences the public beliefs and aitudes. Judge suggested chucky ilm violence represented violence 10 year olds did to the litle boy. Example of media outlets are going to afect your behaviour. Idea that we worry about one kind of media and its inluence. Crime creates media and in turn the media inluences our understanding of crime. Oicers were acquited of use of a deadly weapon Family setled a civil suit for 5. 9 million. Unit said not to press charges because they didn"t know who the oicers were. Adam nobody wrote down the wrong police number. Later ater that video was released the oicer was found guilty. Charged for assault with a deadly weapon. A story line is easily understood and therefore likely to sell.
