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Course Description

This upper-year seminar examines how crime is constructed, represented, and understood through media, visual, and cultural narratives. We explore the social processes through which our understandings of crime and justice are produced and seen; how different media shape public perceptions of crime, class, race, gender, the law and criminalization; and how different media - including film, television, social media, digital platforms, are involved in constructing images of crime and shaping social control. Students engage with sociological theories in cultural, visual, and narrative criminology, media framing, cultural production, and audience studies. This course emphasizes participation, discussion, presentation, and verbal articulation of key ideas and interesting cases, from ‘true crime’, to surveillance, lawyers in film and TV, organized crime, and AI futures.

NOTE: This course is repeatable for credit under different topic titles.