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CCJ 215 Final
Crime and the Media
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Criminal Justice
Undergraduate 2
12/13/2011

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Term
When a person experiences something through media rather than personal experience, what is it called?
Definition
Mediated Experience
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When media content is delivered as edited and highly formatted information it is known as what?
Definition
Infotainment
Term
The most unique characteristic of the new media is what?
Definition
Interactivity
Term
The first medium to bypass the tradition of socializing agents of church, school, family, and community was what?
Definition
Film
Term
What differentiates new media from traditional media are these three characteristics:
Definition
On demand, narrowcasting, and interactivity
Term
When different types of media targets small homogeneous audience that have a special interest in certain content is called what?
Definition
Narrowcasting
Term
According to your book, the crime and justic content of media entertainment products has been estimated to acount for what percentage of output?
Definition
25%
Term
The packaging and marketing of crime information for popular consumption is known as what?
Definition
Commodification
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A regional or national justice event, in which the media co-op the criminal justice system as a source of profit is called what?
Definition
A Media Trial
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The fast-paced, media-driven development of contemporary public policy is called what?
Definition
Pixel Policy
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When events and information are repeatedly cycled and recycled through the media and into culture to reemerge in new context in differing media is called what?
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Looping
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The theoretical view that focuses on human relationships and the way the relationships effect how people perceive reality is called what?
Definition
Social Constructionism
Term
______________ is our most influential social construction of reality engine.
Definition
-Conversational Reality
Term
Who created the 5 frames (4 of which are on the exam) of crime causation?
Definition
Theodore Sasson
Term
The frame that holds that crime stands from a consequence of inequality and discrimination is called?
Definition
Blocked Opportunities Frame
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The frame that depicts crime as a consequence of the disintegration of family and the community is called?
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Social Breakdown Frame
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The frame that holds that crime results from leniency and inefficiency is called?
Definition
Faulty System Frame
Term
The frame that focuses on the criminal justice system rather than on crime is called?
Definition
Racist System Frame
Term
People acquire social knowledge from different sources, and these sources are...
Definition
Significant others, personal experience, churches, schools, and the media (Most likely "All of the Above")
Term
How many stages of social construction are there?
Definition
4
Term
Those who shape our sense of what social conditions are important and what the social problem is are called what?
Definition
Claims Makers
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____________ are fully developed social construction templates that allow its users to categorize, label and deal with a wide range of world events.
Definition
-Frames
Term
The descriptions, typifications, and assertions regarding the extent and nature of conditions in the physical world are called what?
Definition
Factual Claims
Term
Claims that offer a course of action, like a public policy that needs to be followed, to address certain conditions are called?
Definition
Interpretative Claims
Term
According to your textbook, by the time the average child reaches the age of 18, he will have witnessed how many murders?
Definition
18,000
Term
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Crime and justice have many portraits that the public recognizes, such as the innately evil predatory criminal are called what?
Definition
Narratives
Term
The social construction of reality theory recognizes three kinds of reality:
Definition
Experienced Reality, Symbolic Reality, and Socially Constructed Reality.
Term
_____________ are crimes and criminal justice events that are highlighted by claims makers as examples of why this particular construction should be accepted.
Definition
-Symbolic Crimes
Term
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The identification of a particular social condition with a set of social claims makers who come to dominate the social construction:
Definition
Ownership
Term
The values in criminal justice movies may include:
Definition
individualism, appropriate violence, good consumerism, and achieving justice
Term
Electra King is referred to as...
Definition
Femme Fatale
Term
Muddy Romance, they keystone cops were represented as...
Definition
Clumsy, stupid, and ineffective.
Term
Morality plays of the 15th and 16th century were:
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Plays in which characters personified abstract concepts, allegories, plays that taught learning the hard way would disrupt society.
Term
Media content that is hypothesized as a direct cause of crime is referred to as:
Definition
Criminogenic Media
Term
According to political theories, ______________ are the causes of crime.
Definition
-Racism, unequal access to material goods, and conflict among various groups in society
Term
The TV series "The Shield" was based on the...
Definition
Rampart Scandal
Term
The _______ Code stated that no movie would be produced would lower the moral standards of those who saw it.
Definition
-Hays Code
Term
Different cop narratives are found in the media today, the __________ cops are those officers that take the extra step and join the dark forces of crime.
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-Corrupt Cops
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The _________ cops are those officers that go off on their own in their pursuit of criminals and justice.
Definition
-Rogue Cops
Term
The backwards law means:
Definition
The media will present the opposite of crime and justice reality
Term
In terms of media trials, the category of “evil strangers” may involve:
Definition
immigrants, socialists, communists, union leaders, the poor, etc.
Term
The technique of ______________ is used by reality shows to make the show appear unadulterated.
Definition
-Naturalization
Term
What Supreme Court case stated that any violation of the 4th amendment would be excluded from the trial?
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Mapp vs. Ohio
Term
What are the somatotypes identified by William Sheldon?
Definition
Endomorph, Ectomorph, and Mesomorph
Term
The single most common portrait in the entertainment media of a criminals features:
Definition
mature, white male of high social status
Term
Prejudicial Publicity can take two forms:
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Factual Information and Emotional Information
Term
In the episode of The Shield that was shown in class, the strike team was involved in what crime?
Definition
The Money Train Robbery
Term
The _____________ were the first infotainment docudramas on police work.
Definition
-Police Procedural
Term
According to Albert Bandura, children learn by observing and imitating others. What was his theory called?
Definition
Social Learning Theory
Term
According to this class, Shield Laws are:
Definition
Protection from forced divulgence by the media
Term
What US court case stated that media presence in the court room could effect the defendants ability to receive a fair trial?
Definition
Estes vs. Texas
Term
When the portrayal of certain behaviors by the media activate a cluster of associated ideas and concepts that increase the likelihood of someone behaving similarly it is called the:
Definition
Priming Effect/Priming Mechanism
Term
With __________ people will weigh the cost and benefits of a crime
Definition
-Rational Choice Theory
Term
When a case will generate significant pretrial publicity, the courts have 2 trials they can pursue, including restrictive, closer and blahblahblah. Which are...
Definition
Proactive Mechanisms
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__________ do not directly limit the activities of the media, and thus do not directly undermine the 1st amendments Freedom of the Press
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Reactive Mechanisms
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The media portrait of crime that concentrates on the origins of crime and crime investigation and solution is called?
Definition
Front-end loaded
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Media trials that fit the ___________ theme, include those cases in which the defendant occupies a position of trust or authority.
Definition
-Abuse of Power
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Media trials that fit the _____________ theme, include cases in which social prominent defendants are involved.
Definition
-Sinful Rich
Term
Police Officers are involved in the 3 main functions. What function do they spend the least amount of time involved in?
Definition
Law Enforcement Function (More time spent in service and order maintenance)
Term
___________ is used by reality shows to get the audience to connect with certain characters
Definition
-Identification
Term
Lombroso saw criminality as a result of:
Definition
Atavism
Term
A media law enforcement frame that focuses on effective crime busters is represented by:
Definition
G-Men
Term
When John Hinkley Jr. attemped to assassinate President Reagan, he was inspired by what movie?
Definition
Taxi Driver
Term
What are the parts of the individual personality according to Freud?
Definition
Id, Ego, and Superego
Term
Which of the following is a major concern regarding the effects of televising trials?
Definition
Attorneys, judges, and other participants may alter their courtroom behaviors in the presence of cameras.
Term
According to the Strain Theory, a lack of harmony between _________ and _________ produces strain that results in criminal behavior.
Definition
Cultural goals and institutional means
Term
A post modern sense of the real that accounts for our loss of certainty in being able to distinguish clearly between reality and its representation and in being able to distinguish clearly between the modes of its representation is called?
Definition
Hyperreality
Term
As shown in class, the entertainment screen council produced a guide for screen writers as a reference for what disorder?
Definition
Bipolar Disorder
Term
Media technology is used in 3 areas of the criminal justice field:
Definition
Case processing, surveillance systems, and anti-crime advertising
Term
Community service, fines, and restitution are what kind of sanctions?
Definition
Intermediate Sanctions
Term
A number of factors determines the amount of correctional news coverage, which one is NOT a factor?
Definition
Answer: The news coverage must be careful to rights to privacy.
Term
When the reoccurring message in films is the corrupt values of the prison system, the prison narrative is...
Definition
The Nature of Confinement
Term
When the message is that offenders were personally responsible for their actions the prison film narrative is...
Definition
The Pursuit of Justice
Term
When the message is represented by futuristic science fiction and colonies the prison film narrative is...
Definition
Freedom and Release
Term
When the message is immortalizing the "smug hack" portrait of correctional officers the prison film narrative is...
Definition
Authority and Control
Term
Which of these best describes surveillance effect?
Definition
The psychological effect of fearing that you might be under observation.
Term
In the movie Murder in the First, Young was sent to Alcatraz for stealing $5 in a post office, what's the real story?
Definition
Armed Robbery
Term
There are three types of negative stories that typify negative news:
Definition
Stories about correctional failures to protect the public, stories of corrections pursuing inappropriate goals, stories that exemplify corruption
Term
The film, Reefer Madness, was produced by ____________ as part of an anticrime campaign.
Definition
-Federal Bureau of Narcotics (Now DEA)
Term
When an offender spends their nights and or weekends in jail what is it called?
Definition
Intermittent Incarceration
Term
Citizen Cooperation Ads known as _____________ aim to increase the level of crime related information made available to law enforcement by the public.
Definition
-Crime Stoppers
Term
To be effective, it was found that a media campaign must tailor its content to...
Definition
A Specific Population
Term
Only ____ of all violence in the US is actually committed by someone with a mental illness.
Definition
-3%
Term
When it comes to victimization reduction ads, persuading people to adopt blahblahblah is difficult because of the complex interactions among the following factors...
Definition
Likelihood of being harmed, the likely severity of an injury, the efficacy of recommended precautions, the cost of taking action when compared to inaction.
Term
The poem the Blind Men and the Elephant related to this course as a good example of what?
Definition
The arrogance of our knowingness and our understanding of society and of crime.
Term
The insanity defense is raised in less than ____ of felony cases nation wide.
Definition
-1%
Term
In 1954, ______________ comic books were objected to because they depicted criminal acts and moral violations.
Definition
-Superman
Term
About _____ of the crime and justice news at least acknowledges the existence of corrections.
Definition
-1/5 or 20%
Term
The film industry has been making films about corrections since the early 1900's. And prison films make up about what percent of all films?
Definition
1%
Term
Who was the psychiatrist that was convinced there was a link between comic books and the increase in juvenile delinquency?
Definition
Fredrick Wertham
Term
Another problem when using the media to deter crime, sometimes defenders display a type of blahblahblah reactions known as the _______________.
Definition
-Announcement Effect
Term
The national mental health association found that the public gathered most of their information about mental illness from where?
Definition
Television news magazine shows
Term
In the movie Murder in the First, Henri Young is sent back to Alcatraz where he dies three months later, what was the true story?
Definition
Eventually transferred and released in the 1970's and then disappeared
Term
The video recording of arraignments, first appearances, and please has gained support from both crime control and due process advocates. Which like the fact that there is savings of time and money?
Definition
Crime Control advocates
Term
When the insanity defense is raised, in felony cases in the US it succeeds in only ____ of those cases.
Definition
-1/4 or 25%
Term
____________, a famous psychologist, approached the idea of myth from the viewpoint of the collective unconscious.
Definition
-Carl Jung
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