Unit+Crime+as+a+Social+Construct+3

__ ** Part 3: Crime as a Social Construct ** __
 * 1) Choose one medium from the following types: newspapers, magazines, television, crime/mystery shows, news broadcasts on radio or TV, adventure movies, crime/mystery movies/ music videos or cartoons. Review your medium for one week. To determine the profile of the typical criminal situation shown or described. **
 * 2) In your wiki illustrate and describe: **
 * · the criminal profile **
 * · the law enforcement (police) profile **
 * · the victim profile **
 * · the judicial (judge/jury) profile **
 * · the attorney profile **

The movie i chose was "A Law Abitting Citizen". This movie is very interesting because, this couldnt happen in life. For example when the main acter goes and builds tunnels underneath jail cells that couldnt happen (poeple would hear him, and wonder), and he couldnt sneak out to go into the tunnels because there would be guards watching him 24/7. Also when he planted that bomb into the girls cell phone, that couldnt happen in real life, because he wouldnt be able to contact her cell phone and install that. What he did in this movie is very unrealistic, this wouldnt ever happen in reall life. Also in this movie there was no main judge or jury to testify he was guilty, it was ovious when they found the tunnels going into the jail cells.

The media influences our society because they portray some things that will not actually ever happen in life, because its tv. This is very accurate because when you look at some things on tv like csi! and how they figure out some cases and do finger prints and all that overnight. Well that wouldnt actually happen in reall life. Some cases never do get figured out, but tv doesnt want to portray that. Laws improve our freedom because its making the world a safer place to live. Also it restricts our freedom in ways to because we have more laws telling us what we cant do, then what we can do.
 * 3) Explain how the media influences society’s perceptions of crime and the parties involved. Are there perceptions accurate/inaccurate? Explain how and why this portrayal is accurate/inaccurate. **
 * 4) Reflect upon ways in which laws improve/restrict our freedom. Explain ways in which laws improve and restrict our freedom. **
 * 5) Examine impaired driving laws in Canada. What are the moral reasons for its criminalization? ** Well its criminalizations is that, it being band is a good thing. People shouldnt drink and drive it only endangers yourself and others, its the leading cause of deaths in canada.