CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Judiciary Of Australia, Small Claims Court, Superior Court
16 Oct 2014
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Crim 101 09-22-14 (continuation from the last week"s notes) Journalists consider crime to be newsworthy, often to the exclusion of other types of stories. Crime is often central component of entertainment grips the imagination of tv viewers moviegoers. News organizations and producers of popular media are primarily interested in clear (unamgiuos) stories that will attract immediate attention, are easy to understand and that will have a resolution/conclusion within a short time span. Focuses on something extraordianrly bad that affects many ppl. ~problem frame for columbine focused on exceptionally bad nature of the school shootings the horror that they generated in the community and across the nation, and identified violent video games the case . Responded by legislating label and contenet warnings for media content, Stanley cohen explored relationship between media and moral panics. in the book folk devils and moral panics . Cohen identified the media as a crucial factor in stirring up moral panics.
