Media and the criminal justice system/ by Anne Wade.

By:

Wade, Anne [author]

Material type:

Computer fileLanguage: English Publication details: Oakville : Society Publishing, 2022Description: 1 online resource (232, pages) : color illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781774691991 (e-book)

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

P96 C74W11 2022

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Contents:

1. What is media? 2. What is a criminal justice system? -- 3. What is crime news? -- 4. Use of media in crime investigations -- 5. Contribution of mass media to crime -- 6. Using mass media to fight organized crime -- 7. Media in creating social awareness -- 8. Effects of media on law enforcement -- 9. The impact of television viewing on the perceptions of juvenile crime -- 10. Violence and terror in the mass media

Summary: People are influenced by what they see on television. With this in mind, legal scholars and criminal justice practitioners have begun to express concern that the discrepancy between how the justice system operates and how it is portrayed in popular media has hindered the system's ability to function effectively. This interference has been coined the "CSI effect" specifically, the use of forensic technology in crime dramas such as "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" has limited prosecutors' ability to obtain a conviction without DNA or other forensic evidence. Combining data on television viewing habits, convictions in state and federal courts, and capacity measures of publically funded forensics labs, I present evidence that these anecdotal concerns have merit, although the CSI effect primarily affects conviction rates through plea bargaining. I estimate that on average, increases in CSI popularity were weakly correlated with increases in conviction rates in federal and state court. However, in jurisdictions with small or unproductive forensic labs, the direction of the effect reverses.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Materials specified	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Online E-Books	Ladislao N. Diwa Memorial Library Multimedia Section	Non-fiction	OEBP P96 C74W11 2022 (Browse shelf(Opens below))		Available	PAV		OEBP000352
Compact Discs	Ladislao N. Diwa Memorial Library Multimedia Section	Non-fiction	EB P96 C74W11 2022 (Browse shelf(Opens below))		Room use only	PAV		EB000352

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People are influenced by what they see on television. With this in mind, legal scholars and criminal justice practitioners have begun to express concern that the discrepancy between how the justice system operates and how it is portrayed in popular media has hindered the system's ability to function effectively. This interference has been coined the "CSI effect"
specifically, the use of forensic technology in crime dramas such as "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" has limited prosecutors' ability to obtain a conviction without DNA or other forensic evidence. Combining data on television viewing habits, convictions in state and federal courts, and capacity measures of publically funded forensics labs, I present evidence that these anecdotal concerns have merit, although the CSI effect primarily affects conviction rates through plea bargaining. I estimate that on average, increases in CSI popularity were weakly correlated with increases in conviction rates in federal and state court. However, in jurisdictions with small or unproductive forensic labs, the direction of the effect reverses.

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2022-11-1010 2022-9-1288

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