Week 2 Discussion 1 Media and Victimization

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Week 2 Discussion 1 Media and Victimization Analyze the evolution of the media’s role in assisting and hindering investigation of victimization. According to several studies in the book, the media's establishment on behalf of victims has been both a blessing and a curse. The first Amendment requires the media to report, identify individuals, and provide sources. This can sometimes be faulted. As the article notes, insensitive media may prevent a victim from accepting their status as a victim. The victim and those around them are painted in an unfavorable light through sensational reporting (Daigle, 2017). Professor and students, therein lies the gift. According to several studies cited in our book, assistance from the media is not only a fantastic instrument, but also the most effective one for police departments across the nation. With the aid of the media, there is a very high likelihood that cases will be resolved. The media is a potent enemy in the criminal justice system because it promotes community improvement, provides information, and broadcasts reward incentives and phone numbers to the general public. Critique the criminal justice system’s response to victimization and to media coverage of crime. The exploitation and media attention have prompted a similar response from the criminal justice system. Because of the connection that criminal justice and the media have created the emphasis has shifted to prevention, intervention, and meeting the needs of the victim. This is no longer the case; before, relationship issues that occurred on the streets of American cities took longer to resolve than those that occurred in homes. Police have started to solve crimes more quickly with the aid of regional and national media sources, social media, print, and other media types (Davis, Lurigio, Herman, 2013). While the mainstream media has been very committed to covering the so-called outside world. The impact of the media on certain issues has occasionally been felt by the criminal justice system. Especially in relation to the American prison system. The sensitive topic of rape in prisons and jails is discussed in Section 1.5 of our work. The text makes the point that men are often sexually assaulted in prisons and other detention centers around the nation, but that this was not widely publicized until the Human rights watch report of 2001. This led to the 2003 passage of the Prison Rape Elimination Act by Congress. As a result, prisons began to compile information about inmates and submit reports to the Department of Justice. While this may be seen as a setback for the criminal justice system's correctional division, Davis, Lurigio, and Herman (2013) argue that it was the media that spurred the appropriate course of action to reduce rape in jail facilities. References Daigle, L. E. (2017). Victimology: A text/reader (2nd ed.). Retrieved from https://content.ashford.edu/

Davis, R. C., Lurigio, A. J., & Herman, S. (Eds.). (2013). Victims of crime (4th ed.). Retrieved from https://content.ashford.edu/

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