Explore the news coverage of an historical event. Each student will conduct
primary research into the media coverage of an historical crime or justice issue of your choosing.
The historical incident or issue must precede 1 January 2000.
Your selection of an historical incident or issue can include:
a. A particular crime incident (e.g. a murder, including its investigation, the trial, or its
punishment)
b. A particular crime problem (e.g. murder, fraud, burglary, family violence, either based
on a single incident or pattern of incidents in a given time period)
c. A policing issue (use of force, fatal killing, road traffic pursuits, corruption)
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d. An issue relating to criminal trials (regarding a specific trial, or a component of the trial
process, like the role of the judge, the jury, or sentencing)
e. News about issues relating to punishment, corrections or imprisonment processes
(which can involve historical examples of execution);
f. The reporting over a particular
historical time period. Pick a time
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