600-800 word essay

DUE: 10/31/2017 NO LATER THAN 10AM

Your essay should focus on a crime or other justice-related event that  was/is highly publicized in the media. Ideally, pick a story with enough  coverage to allow an examination of how these stories evolve over  several days. Suggested topics include the Hannah Graham case in  Virginia, something related to events in Ferguson Missouri, recent  shootings in Wilmington, an older case such the Duke lacrosse case or  Newtown shootings, or an ongoing justice issue such as genocide, ebola  in Africa, terrorism or war. 

Your assignment:

View  or read at least one electronic media for several consecutive days. If  you have chosen a topic from past history, use resources that covered at  least a one week time span. Prepare a 600-800 word essay, supported  with scholarly research, discussing all of the following that apply:

1. Depiction of criminals, crime, the criminal justice system and its personnel (lawyers, judges and correctional officers).

2. You must use the concept of  "frames", to discuss the way the  media sources you choose address the causes of crime and criminality.

3. Do the media emphasize individual or structural factors in crime and criminality?

4. What prevention and/or punishment/rehabilitation/justice policies are implied?

• 5. What solutions to crime and criminality are proposed?
• 6. In what ways do you think  citizens or your own ideas about crime and punishment are influenced by  the media source(s). Be specific.
• 7. How specifically do the media sources reviewed help shape individual and social reality about crime and justice?
• 8. Did media biases affect the story? How? Provide examples. Do these biases also become apparent in our policy choices?

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