CJA 336 Wk 1 – Individual Paper, Crime in the Media

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CJA 336 Wk 1 – Individual Paper, Crime in the Media
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CJA 336 Wk 1 – Individual Paper, Crime in the Media

Many people obtain their information about the criminal justice system and crime through the media, whether news or entertainment. In this assignment, you’ll look at how the people involved in crime and criminal justice are portrayed in an entertainment show and compare it to statistics from your local community.

 

Watch a crime-related, fictional television show episode, such as one from Criminal Minds, Law & Order, NCIS, Chicago P.D., Blue Bloods, S.W.A.T., etc.

 

Research your local police, courts, and corrections agencies’ employee demographics, as well as your local arrest demographics. You may find helpful data from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program.

Write a minimum 700 to 1,050 Microsoft Word Paper in which you address the following:

  1. Identify the diversity among the characters portrayed in the show. Include suspects, victims, and criminal justice professionals in the police, courts, or corrections.

  2. Describe any stereotypical attributes assigned to any characters.

  3. Compare the demographics portrayed in the show to your local police, courts, and corrections agencies’ employee demographics, as well as your local arrest demographics. Are the demographics in the show like your local community? How or how not?

  4. Describe challenges in locating accurate crime and victimization data nationally and locally, and how that might affect the accuracy of people’s perceptions of crime.

  5. Explain how media portrayals can influence people’s perceptions of crime. Consider portrayals and perceptions of those who offend; those who are victimized; and those who investigate, prosecute, sentence, and oversee those serving a sentence.

 

  • Format your paper using headings as part of structurally organizing information.

  • See example headings for this paper below in Instructor Resources

  • Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines using in-text citations and at least 3-peer reviewed sources, one must be the course text.

  • Review the posted Rubric for additional assignment requirements and expectations

  • Name Your Submitted Assignment Wk1First&LastName EXAMPLE: Wk1MaxHalloway (NoSpaces)

  • Confirm your Assignment was correctly submitted and in the right format.

  • NOTE: High Risk Originality Reports will require an automatic revision of your paper