Problem 1: Discuss a local crime or criminal justice event that resulted in heavy media coverage and in calls for a change in a criminal justice policy. Discuss how the competing constructions of the issue were framed, whether the event became a symbolic crime, and whether a policy change followed or appears likely. Discuss which features of the crime or event made it more or less likely to generate a memorial criminal justice policy.
Problem 2: Discuss how criminal justice policy is debated and covered in the media noting how references to crime-and-justice events by politicians and other policy makers are couched and how different criminal justice policies are framed and socially constructed in the media by claims makers.