Assessment requires students to create a news media artefact (eg written newspaper report or digitized newspaper report) (1000-word equivalent) and an accompanied written rationale (500-word equivalent).
Specifically, students are required to select from a range of crime news stories and rewrite the news story from a critical criminological perspective. In doing so, students will be encouraged to draw on relevant ideas and theory covered on the module to rewrite the narrative to reflect a critical perspective, challenging (the often) common sense narratives about crime and criminal justice present in the media. In doing so, students will have regard to the effect patterns of social diversity and inequality have on media representations of crime and criminal justice. The related rationale will provide students with an opportunity to explain their chosen narrative and their decisions on how to represent the crime news story.
Whilst students will be tasked with producing their individual artefacts and assessed as individuals, the individual artefacts will form a whole class/ group news artefact comprising of all submissions.
This assessment will require the students to critically review and analyse the media representation of crime and criminal justice, offering counter-narratives based on their research and accordingly aligns with module learning outcomes 1 – 6.