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MDST 3770

Crime, Media, Culture

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Fall 2021

Topics

  • & —Course overview and expectation(s)
  • Doing media criminology—
  • — & --Crime in the news—
  • Video: Russell Williams--The Confession-The Fifth Estate
  • — & --Police, courts and media—
  • — & --Victims and offenders—
  • Video: Video: Michigan woman’s 'last note' raises suspicions, leads to cop
  • Video: He goes missing, his wife marries his best friend (who also wrote his life insurance policy)
  • — & --Test 1—30%--8:00 am to 8:00 pm—
  • Prisons and innovative justice—
  • — & --Youth and moral economy—
  • & — Racialized violence and hate crime—
  • Video: Australia’s African Gangs
  • — & —Crime of the Powerful
  • — & -- Test # 2—30%--8:00 am to 8:00 pm—
  • — & —Crime as entertainment: The CSI effect
  • & --Surveillance, cyberspace and civil society
  • ———Wrapping the course
  • E Fail 40-49%
  • F Fail 1-39%

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