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Assignment:
Students are to reflect on the course materials to address how the media contributes to criminological imagination. Answer in essay format, introduction, thesis statement, body and conclusion. Each question must be answered separately
PART 1: The implications of popular criminology and learning about crime through the culture and mass media.
1. Popular myths of criminality continue to fascinate the mass media. How does the media produce the glorification of crimes that contribute to the ongoing illusion, often misleading, and counter-productive notions of the representations of the "public enemy"?
PART 2: Using either critical race, intersectionality, or gaze theory students to answer one out of two questions:
1 Drawing on examples from the course, what is the interplay between fact and fiction across different kinds of media representation (e.g., newspapers, television shows, movies).
2. What are the emotional (e.g., excitement, anger, sadness, fear) effects of popular representations of crime/criminal behaviour and the criminal justice system?