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Running Head: ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 1

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 2

Annotated Bibliography: Criminal Justice and Media

Shaka James

Florida Institute of Technology

Gergen, K. (2015). An invitation to social construction. 2nd ed. Los Angeles, CA: Sage. Retrieved from https://books.google.co.ke/books?id=tliSBhmSd5wC&pg=PA2&dq=define+social+construction&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwihmIewmorlAhVT5eAKHbQSBCIQ6AEITzAG#v=onepage&q=define%20social%20construction&f=false

This book unpacks the concept of social construction in a person’s mind. It gives detail explanations on the major components of social construction such relation to self, the aspect of human inquiry, the conflict between the proposed ideas and one’s knowledge of what the truth might be and the ideas that are socially constructed.

I will use this article to illustrate how media coverage of criminal justice process are reconstructed forming meanings that people hold on to.

BBC News. (2019). BBC - Reasons for abortion. Retrieved 7 October 2019, from http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/abortion/legal/when_1.shtml

This article, gives an overview on the issue of abortion. It provides the reason as to why people carry out abortion. It therefore gives the reason behind some countries having it as a legal practice. These reasons have in most societies, become the exceptional circumstances under which abortion can take place. Some of the reasons though, can be disputed, while others are genuine enough to be unforbidden.

I will use this article to show how the media presents the issue of abortion on the lenses of legality and illegality.

BBC News. (2019). Alabama passes bill banning abortion. Retrieved 7 October 2019, from https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48275795

This article details on the ban of abortion in Alabama on the year 2019. It gives instances under which abortion is illegal and the penalties for the doctors who either attempt or carry out the procedure. In this article, the bill has gone to an extreme of prohibiting abortion in cases that the child born will not have a quality life. The article goes ahead to give an overview of countries that are tightening abortion laws.

I will use this article to illustrate the social construction of an aspect that was otherwise viewed as legal.

Conde, C. (2019). New York Times: Rights Group Denounces Illegality of Abortion in Philippines | Center for Reproductive Rights. Available at: https://reproductiverights.org/press-room/new-york-times-rights-group-denounces-illegality-of-abortion-in-philippines

This article reports on the study in Philippines that denounced the government for making abortion illegal. According to this article, illegalizing abortion was responsible for the thousands of women who die through unsafe, crude abortion procedures. While illegalizing abortion aimed at eliminating the practice, the Philippine study unveiled an opposite effect.as more practices were carried out. Even worse, is the environments that abortions occurred. As it was carried out in hide, the conditions were unhealthy leading to deaths of thousands.

I will use this article to illustrate on the media’s coverage of the social construction of effects of abortion.

Altheide, D. (2002). Creating Fear: News and the Construction of Crisis (1st Ed.). Hawthorne: Transaction Publishers. Retrieved from https://books.google.co.ke/books?id=gjOcdg-LdukC&printsec=frontcover&dq=news+and+the+creation+of+crisis&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwik183_qYrlAhVvA2MBHTWFAzIQ6AEIQjAE#v=onepage&q=news%20and%20the%20creation%20of%20crisis&f=false

This book examines the role of the media in creating fear in any aspect. The media coverage has various effects on the audience, which sometimes, is exaggerated.

I will use this book to illustrate how media coverage on the effects of abortion in Philippines, might be a means to an end.