Chapter 3 1)Discuss your views about how much crime and violence in society would disappear if there were no crime-and-justice media

Chapter 3

1)Discuss your views about how much crime and violence in society would disappear if there were no crime-and-justice media.

2. Discuss the character Hannibal Lector as a construction of predatory criminality and why the predator criminal image enjoys lasting popularity.

3. Discuss a commercial film’s portrayal of a real serial killer in comparison with the historical facts.

4. Discuss whether you feel that some types of media (films, books, electronic video games, for example) are more criminogenic than others or whether some content is more dangerous than other content.

5. Watch a week of crime shows and discuss their portraits of crime fighters.

6. Discuss the reasons that civilians are portrayed so often as successful crime fighters while traditional police officers are portrayed as unsuccessful in the media.

7. Watch an episode of the show COPS and discuss how editing and formatting are used to frame the portraits of police officers, suspects, and victims in the show.