03 Feb Create an ethics policy for the media in handling the reporting of criminal justice issues and news
Prior to beginning work on this assignment,
· Review Chapter 11 from your textbook, Criminal Justice Ethics: Theory and Practice.
· Review the article Police Social Media and Broadcast News: An Investigation into the Impact of Police Use of Facebook on Journalists’ Gatekeeping RoleLinks to an external site..
· Review the video, Mass Killings: The Role of the MediaLinks to an external site. .
The media plays a major part in all facets of U.S. society. Increased attention to criminal justice issues and criminal justice administration by the media creates opportunities and threats to the status quo of criminal justice policies and actions. Chapters 11 and 16 in your text discuss the influence of the media on criminal justice and the theories of justice.
For this assignment, you will support evaluating public issues that criminal justice organizations face in ethical decision-making and creating standards for ethical and moral conduct in criminal justice situations.
In your paper,
· Create an ethics policy for the media in handling the reporting of criminal justice issues and news.
· Examine the significance of political bias in reporting.
· Construct a foundation for the accurate and ethical reporting of news about the criminal justice system.
The Ethics, Media, and Criminal Justice paper
· must be 3 to 4 double-spaced pages in length (
must use at least 2 scholarly, peer-reviewed, credible sources in addition to the course text
your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
