Assignment:
Media
First, select a topic in criminal justice based on our discussion. Second, do the following four (4) searches for your topic, in this case its prison overcrowding.
In the search box type:
1. new york times prison overcrowding
2. wall st journal prison overcrowding
3. nbc news prison overcrowding
4. You must select one additional news source, such as Fox, or ABC, or the LA Times, etc. Only newspapers, news magazines, or news websites.
Select three or four reports from the list of news stories and summarize each.
Be creative and find patterns or controversies. What do the reports tell you about prison overcrowding? Are there common themes or are they very diverse? What is the focus, state level, national level or something else? Write a two page report and bring it to class.