MCJ 6810 - Crime and Media

Credits: (3)
Experimental
This class uses a combination of criminal justice, sociology, and cultural studies to guide students as they examine the relationship between broad media (including social, movies, television, and music), and crime. Students will become familiar with the theoretical lenses used to assess media effects and cultural criminology. Crime and media construction, image, moral panics, and the impact of the internet on crime and deviance will also be explored. This class will allow students to better understand the following questions: If I watch a behavior on television will I act that way in real life? Are the crime statistics the news shares accurate? How are stereotypes perpetuated in movies?