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Moral Panic. After viewing the video, Gender & Crime, please address each of the following questions:
a. Is crime normal in a society?
b. What is the purpose of crime and punishment?
c. How much crime is “enough,” and how would this be measured?
d. How is crime defined?
e. What problems are defined as worthy of social control?
f. What is the influence of the media?
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Legal Representation and Social Class. After listening to the interview with Stephen B. Bright, The quality of a legal defense: Does it matter if you’re rich or poor?, please respond to the following:
a. How does geographic location play a role in the quality of representation provided by the public defender?
b. How does the overburdened public defense system in many areas contribute to issues of wrongful conviction?
c. Contrast the legal representation described by Bright to the level of representation available to white-collar, corporate, and environmental crimes.
d. This discussion highlights two issues – wrongful conviction and the overburdened public defender system. How can these problems be solved?
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Myths and Reality of Crime. As we learn in the video, Crimes of the Powerful, our justice system tends to focus on street crime, often ignoring much more significant problems such as white-collar, corporate, and state crime. The video also discusses euthanasia, although the point of this reference is to illustrate how the law can be used as a tool for social change. The video...