The article came from an online source which I was exposed to a year ago. The online source was from the “Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture, 14,(1), 2007” which it is from the School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany in 2007. The title of the scholarly article is “Juvenile “Super-Predators” in the News: A Comparison of Adults and Juvenile Homicides” by Pizarro, Chermak, and Gruenewald from Michigan State University. This article is highly interesting because I am pursuing a career working with Juveniles as a Probation Corrections Officer in the County of San Bernardino. Therefore, be aware of these history facts puts me in a stand of what type of people I will be working with. Also, how easily convince an individual can be with realistic fact and data to predict the future of the juveniles.
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Consequently, gaining a wide range of audience to open juvenile cases comparing the growth of the violence throughout the late 1990s grabbing the characteristic to define a Juvenile as a Super-Predator. The author mentions previous research that are concentrated on the media not exposing crime in a form that “music, films, and popular television programs” are presenting it. Majoring of the new shows are introducing “crime-related violence which make up “61%” overall. Also, the media have changed and ignored some violent stories done by juveniles and some small amount by adults. Crimes that are unlikely to be heard of are being taken drastic exposing the full life event. Whereas, serious crime such as “murder, violence, and bloody” incident are not told completely. There assuming the media are making up the conclusions of the incidents keeping “aggregate statistics about the crime”. The researchers gathered crimes mainly homicide with limitations to define the characteristics of the crime and
Consequently, gaining a wide range of audience to open juvenile cases comparing the growth of the violence throughout the late 1990s grabbing the characteristic to define a Juvenile as a Super-Predator. The author mentions previous research that are concentrated on the media not exposing crime in a form that “music, films, and popular television programs” are presenting it. Majoring of the new shows are introducing “crime-related violence which make up “61%” overall. Also, the media have changed and ignored some violent stories done by juveniles and some small amount by adults. Crimes that are unlikely to be heard of are being taken drastic exposing the full life event. Whereas, serious crime such as “murder, violence, and bloody” incident are not told completely. There assuming the media are making up the conclusions of the incidents keeping “aggregate statistics about the crime”. The researchers gathered crimes mainly homicide with limitations to define the characteristics of the crime and