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Real events that are portrayed in entertaining ways (i.e. live car chases)
What is infotainment?
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Before the 40’s, criminals were just "regular people" and after the 40’s criminals were seen as heros or villains in the media.
How did the view of criminals change after the 1940s?
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Print, sound, visual, and new media (video games, internet, etc.)
The four different categories of media are
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Herbert Packer
Who created the due process model and crime control model to demonstrate how mass media affects the criminal justice system?
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When events are cycled and recycled through the media in different ways.
What does "looping" mean?
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U.S penny press daily newspapers
What print media emerged in the 1830s?
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Comic Books
What print media was one of the more socially influential print medias to develop in the twentieth century?
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Episodic formatted news focuses on stories as discrete events (crime, crime scenes, court cases, etc)
Thematic formatted news highlights trends and persistent problems (more exploration in crimes)
What is the difference between episodic formatted news and thematic formatted news?
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Megan's Law, Amber Alert, "Three Strike and You're Out", Brady's Law
Name a few memorial criminal justice policies.
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Detective and Crime Thriller
What are the two most popular print-based crime to emerge in 19th century print media?
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1) Announcement that a crime has occurred
2) Viewer being visually or verbally transported to the scene 3) The shift of focus to the identity and apprehension of the offender and related effort of law enforcement officials
A crime news story normally unfolds in three segments. What are those segments?
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Law enforcement are sheepdogs (protect the weak)
Citizens are sheep (those in need of protection) Criminals are wolves (hunt on the weak)
The media's vision of society is of wolves, sheeps, and sheepdogs. How is law enforcement, citizens, and criminals related to these terms?
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Mainstreaming
When the media affects some viewers more than others regardless of exposure level, this is known as
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Television
Between 1948 and 1951, what replaced the radio as home entertainment?
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The news depicts events that are either far away, rare, or uncommon. This makes people fearful of crime.
What is one problem that the news has when depicting real violence/crimes. And how does it impact the people who watch the news?
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False. Media portrays high levels of crime and victimization.
Heavy media consumers share a belief that there is low crime and victimization. True or False?
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Immanent Justice
The belief that a divine higher power will intervene and reveal the guilty while protecting the innocent
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New York Sun
The first newspaper to include daily police-court news columns in 1833 was
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Media is more easily accessible and shows endless simulations of crime as well as how to commit certain crimes.
How has the internet changed our consumption of media?
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model that addresses the criminal justice system as an assembly line where defendants are processed quickly and efficiently. Goal is to punish criminals and deter crime.
What is the crime control model?
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