case study media 5
Media Content Analysis
Directions: Complete the form for each episode of your chosen television series.
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Crime Fighters
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Criminals
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Victims
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Innocent or Contributory |
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Crimes (type, success/failure)
Violence (initiator, effective/successful)
Weapons (type, prevalence, realism, need, usefulness, desirability)
Solutions (who solves the crime and how; legality of procedures)
How the criminal is captured/arrested/killed (violently or nonviolently)
Criminal justice system (how portrayed – useful, corrupt, effective, bureaucratic)
What the portions and steps show; where the portrait stops
Society (structure, fairness, safety, actions of witnesses/strangers)
Theories of crime (frames and motivation)
Policies (punishment or rehabilitative, society or individual)
Comments/observations