CJ 205 Crime, Media, and Culture

Provides an overview of the relationships of mass media, crime, criminal justice, and culture. In particular, the course will address the social construction of crime, crime and justice in the mass media, the media's effects on attitudes toward crime and criminal justice, the media as a cause of crime, the media's influence on the judicial system, etc. Such topics will be addressed using a sociological perspective, thus necessitating the analysis of media's relationship to sociological and criminological theories. (3)