Role Of Media In The Media

The recognitions involving rights of victims did not find affirming traction until the nineteen-seventies, on the heels of many studies the prior decade. Author Robert Walker notes “the idea of crime is an offense against society as a whole and not just an individual,” (2015) spearheaded the disregard for victims for many decades. Long gone were the days when victims illustrated themselves at a judicial hearing when an injustice had occurred. Victims represented their self before a justice official often by emulating the law man, wearing the prosecution label and as the recipient of a guilty offender’s punishment. Toward the turn of the twentieth-century a more professional stance regarding prosecution had both erased and evaporated the

The media plays a massive role in the construction of crime, this includes the reporting of crime, the sensationalisation of stories, over-representation of different social groups and age of offenders. Construction of crime is also through stereotyping both ethnicity and gender. It is sometimes argued that the media is an ideological tool that is used to distort reality from its viewers. Female killers are often considered as ‘oxymoronic’, as they are seen as contradictory. Females are generally seen as caring beings but once they commit violent crimes, they are judged based individual circumstances and it is not taken into consideration that they could just as violent as male offenders in their own right. In this essay, I will be focusing on the gender stereotypes in media, specifically focusing on female killers.

Prior to taking this course I wouldn’t be able to explain the differences or even be able to compare it to the criminal justice system. However, I now have a better understanding of how the criminal justice system works. This movie takes place in the southern state of Alabama and revolves around two teenagers accused of killing a store clerk. Throughout this essay I will explain the legal processes that appeared in the film as well as the processes that did not appear in the film.

Over the years, the Supreme Court has changed along with the situations and controversies of the time period. The interpretations and connotations of many amendments and constitutional clauses have grown and evolved throughout history, and it is the job of the justice system to adapt to match these changes. As different situations and scenarios have presented themselves, the justices of the Supreme Court have wrestled with moral, judicial, legal, and societal reasons to make decisions regarding the rights of the accused. In many situations, there is not always a clear-cut divide between right and wrong. This provides various challenges for the court system, as its members are forced to make decisions based on a plethora of justifications.

Movie Paper: My Cousin Vinny Audrey Hepburn can be credited for saying, “everything I learned I learned from the movies,” but it is a sentiment more than a few share in a cinema-rich country like America. The timeless Hollywood classics, gritty dramas, passionate romances, and terrifying horror films have portrayed fiction and nonfiction in entertaining and delightful ways since the 1890s and has only become more realistic and outrageous through time. As a matter of education, film has long been a study of the human condition, and has been used by professors to educate and engage students through storytelling. Correspondingly, My Cousin Vinny – a law comedy – exposes a few humorous realities of criminal procedure and the trial court process in a side-splitting, crowd-pleasing manner that reaches both neophytes and veteran law aficionados.

It is no coincidence that the movies Nicole Rafter dives into have one of the three principles attached to the reasoning of the deviant behaviors in crime films. For example in this movie corporate America is deemed to be the top dog within this small rural community. Erin Brockovich the main character is investigating a case of negligence of Pacific Gas and Electric Company and their knowledge of carcinogenic hexavalent chromium contaminating the water of this community. As Erin is portrayed to be this irresponsible broke mother who can’t hold a job she finds this opportunity to be huge as she can potentially hold a job within this law firm. As emotions get attached listening to the illnesses of the families within the Hinkley community she finds it rewarding that she’s contributing to the potential settlement these families need in order to regain their health.

An anonymous poet once said “ABC and NBC do not weep” and “as blood drips from my television screen onto my living room floor, but I walk around it.” This powerfully speaks to the desensitization of the American society, and to twenty-first-century society as a conglomeration. Every night's millions of us sit down to watch some crime series such as Criminal Minds or NCIS. These shows give society a fractured, disjointed account of the justice system and law enforcement, but they also cause us to become comfortable with the idea of murder and a broken justice in a way, “[the] blood drips from [our] television screen onto [our] living room floor[s], but [we] walk around it,” masking the horror and rationalizing it. I have fallen victim to this

When thinking about these two films we can see how has civil law establish a representation of torts, negligence, product liability, compensatory damages, and many other things that relate to the analyzation of the American civil law portrayed in our media.

Bennett Capers essay “Notes on Minority Report” that he wrote for a symposium titled Legal outsiders in American Film takes the movie Minority Report directed by Stephen Spielberg and presents the themes of the movie in a unique way. The essay begins by briefly discussing Capers history with law and film knowledge. Capers states, he uses “film and television clips to illustrate criminal law concepts, to problematize these concepts, and even to raise larger issues about justice” (795) What Capers really means by this is films like Minority Report in some ways represent real life and the struggles that citizens of our society face when dealing with the judicial system: this is his main focus throughout the essay. The essay flowed well throughout,

As discussed in class, many people never come into contact with a police officer or have experience with the criminal justice system. Therefore, the public might be subjected to create a perception of the criminal justice system constructed off of the media they are exposed to. This television show relies on the dogma that in order to achieve justice, a wrongful act must be penalized though incarceration, which serves as a way of remediation. In this episode, we are presented with a violent act of crime that most people agree is a morally and ethically a wrongful act. In order to correct this wrongful act, the show offers the ideology that the police must prosecute the criminal in order to achieve justice for the victim. However, as discussed in class, many of the crimes people are incarcerated for are non-violent offenses. A majority of these crimes are drug possession that does not include a victim. Furthermore, this show also suggests that every offender has the opportunity to go to trial. As illustrated in the episode, the defendant had an opportunity to go to court within a couple of days of the committed act. Yet, as we learned in class, most defendants end up negotiating a plea bargain and never have the chance to encounter a grand jury. Therefore this show misconstrues the reality of our criminal justice

Chinatown Chinatown, the 1974 film that takes place in 1937 Los Angeles, takes an interesting look at how people in power view law. So far in class we have analyzed films in which the “bad guy” is a criminal, with the exceptions coming from Chinatown and Michael Clayton. The major difference between these movies comes from the protagonists in each, a private detective and lawyer/ fixer respectively (even both the actors are great, Jack Nicholson and George Clooney, wow). The film shows two major themes within this area. The first is corruption within normally trusted entities and the second is ignorance in the pursuit of justice.

Ever since there was civilization there were laws, lawmakers, and law enforcers. The Founding Fathers established the U.S. with special laws that give citizens the freedom that the British had denied to them. When they traveled to the country, the documents that the Founding Fathers wrote permitted them freedom of speech, freedom of religion and the right to a speedy and public trial. Reading newspapers or watching TV at home, at least we find one article or news describing a killing, a shooting, or an armed robbery. With all these problems, we are in fear but cannot avoid hearing and dealing with them. They happen every day and some time justice system blunders and leads to wrongly convict people for what they do not commit. This is the reality of a wrecked system that is resulted from injustice and corruption. Ultimately, Errol Morris confirms this reality based on a true story of an innocent convicted Randal Adams for a criminal case by creating a film, The Thin Blue Line. David Harris, an important accuser, claims Adams was a murderer and shot Robert Wood, a Dallas police officer. With Morris’ suspicion of Adam's’ innocence, he turns himself to be a detective movie director and investigates the criminal case that occurred in Dallas, Texas in 1976. His goal is to show that Adams was wrongly convicted and justice system was flawed. By using juxtaposition, recreations, and archival footage. Morris successfully contrasts Adams

In the fictional media today there are many inaccurate portrayals of the legal system to add excitement by distorting reality. Through these portrayals, people begin to think this is the way the legal system really is when realistically it is not as glamorized and exciting as the media makes it seem. I watched Erin Brockovich to see how the film legitimizes the law, how it stresses flaws in our legal system and how it accurately depicts the American legal system. This film is a dramatized version of a true story, but the story stays mostly accurate to the legitimization of the law. Erin Brockovich was working at a law firm as an assistant.

Media plays a big role in society these days. Whether it be letting society know what is going on the in the world today or something as simple as updates on current life on social media. The media's role in society not only delivers information of the world but also brings people together through common interests or general talks. In Brian Knappenberger's documentary: Nobody Speak: Trials of Free Press it is seen how media effect lives and how there is a much stronger meaning to what media stands for in society and why media needs to take its stand when it comes to people who want to devour them.

It can change opinions because they have access to people and this gives it a lot of strength. This strength can either be used constructively by educating the people or it can be used destructively by misleading the innocent people. Power of the media can transform the whole society especially in the developing countries it can be used as a 'weapon of mass destruction'. But I think the most important use of media is to educate the people about the basic human rights. The dilemma of the developing countries is that people are not fully aware of their basic rights and if they know, they don't know about what to do and where to go. They don't know their collective strength. Even they don't know how to protest and what is the importance of