JOUR 3850 - Crime, Gender, and Media

3 credit hours

Addresses origin and history of “rape myths” and crime-related legislation as contextually-situated, gender disparities in the “cultivation of fear,” sex trafficking, intimate partner violence, and other topics as constructed in media messages about crime, criminals, victimization, and the prison system, positioned across the inequality of various social intersections.

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