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Sunday, January 5, 2003
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1:30-3:15 p.m.
Joint Program of Sections on Criminal Justice and Mass Communication Law
- Andrew Eric Taslitz, Howard University, and Chair, Section on Criminal Justice
- Michael I. Meyerson, University of Baltimore, and Chair, Section on Mass Communication Law
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Maryland Suite A
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel
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Media and Criminal Justice
Moderator:
Andrew Eric Taslitz, Howard University
Speakers: - Susan A. Bandes, DePaul University
- Sara Sun Beale, Duke University
- Robert M. Entman, Professor, Department of Communication, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina
- Joseph E. Kennedy, University of North Carolina
Media coverage of crime can have a major impact on both the creation and implementation of criminal justice policy. Market forces may shape media images of the causes, nature, and extent of criminality in ways that may not necessarily depict a complete or accurate picture of reality. Politicians, in the view of some recent writers on the subject, may manipulate such images to further political ends having little to do with crime control. Potential jurors' attitudes may be shaped by media images of crime in ways that may affect jury verdicts. This panel considers the theoretical and practical implications of the intersection of the media and the criminal justice system. Topics addressed will include empirical data on the nature and impact of media portrayals of the relationship between race and criminality, political and legal issues raised by that intersection, the connection between media images and our retributive emotions, and the political and social role of "moral panics" about such matters as child sexual abuse and drug abuse.
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