SOC 280 - Media and Crime

Credits: 3
This course examines the complex relationships among media, crime, and the criminal justice system. Special emphasis is placed on television news media and the pervasiveness of crime and criminological theory in Hollywood cinema. Course content includes an evaluation of how the media reports and frames crime, fundamentally influencing public perception. In addition, students will develop a sense of how the media simultaneously acts as a catalyst for, a consequence of, and a solution to the crime problem. Normally offered in the fall of even numbered years.