By ahnationtalk on March 28, 2024
By ahnationtalk on March 28, 2024
By ahnationtalk on March 28, 2024
By ahnationtalk on March 28, 2024
By ahnationtalk on March 28, 2024
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SNetwork Recent Storiesby ahnationtalk on December 20, 2016629 Views
Like so many topics in this age of information overload, crime and punishment have been reduced to entertainment. It ends with a familiar result: We are amused but not necessarily informed.
Huge audiences watch The Hunt on CNN with John Walsh, the successor to America’s Most Wanted, his previous show which ran for 24 years. Viewers avidly consume hits of the docudrama series Forensic Files, which has been on the air since 1996. The struggle it presents between the good guys and the very, very bad guys has been seen in 142 countries and has spawned popular series such as CSI, which itself ran for 15 years, from 2000 to 2015. The series Cops follows police officers on the beat in pursuit of felons and has also enjoyed strong audiences since 1989.
These shows — and a robust, true-crime book industry that has taken off since the days of Truman Capote’s classic account of the massacre of the Clutter family, In Cold Blood — have become the whole story of crime and punishment for a lot of people with no direct experience of the justice system. But what happens once the arrests are made and the sentences are handed down? What does a modern corrections system really look like? It varies from country to country, but life on the inside is much more complex than the comic-book version offered up by pop culture.
Read More: http://ipolitics.ca/2016/12/20/the-price-we-pay-for-punishment/
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