19 Oct 2005
Crime Reporting Background Info
Materials on crime and accident reporting.
Glance at this department of justice handout. You will refer to it for an upcoming assignment. http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/cjsflowco.pdf
Covering Crime and Justice (I'm assigning three short excerpts from a longer work.)
Introduction
Crime Beat Issues
The Arrest Process
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/mt/mt-tb.cgi/3870
Excerpt: Crime Reporting Background Info -- News Writing (EL 227)...
Weblog: RachelPrichard
Tracked: October 17, 2005 03:34 PM
Excerpt: Well, a week has gone by since we read these Emily Dickinson poems. Here goes... From "I have not told my garden yet": "I will not name it in the street, For shops would stare, that I So shy, so...
Weblog: She Never Could Decide
Tracked: October 19, 2005 11:22 PM
Excerpt: I have mixed feelings about our shift in focus to crime reporting. Part of me is thinking, "Wow, now we're into the good stuff," while the other part of me is thinking "Uh oh, here it goes..." I admit I'd...
Weblog: She Never Could Decide
Tracked: October 19, 2005 11:54 PM
Dr. Jerz,
I glanced over the department of justice handout. How bad is it if I am even more confused about the justice system now than I was before? I read some parts, checked out the graph, and I am still really confused. I hope that we take some time and go over this on Wednesday, because I am absolutely lost.
Posted by: Jason Pugh at October 17, 2005 12:49 PMJay, I haven't used that chart in teaching before, so I wasn't sure how it would be received. Since this is just a preview of the chart, it's good that we can talk about it here, so you won't be confused about it the night before we *need* it.
Posted by: Dennis G. Jerz at October 17, 2005 01:44 PMReading the technical stuff below the chart confused me, as well... But if I simply look at the chart itself, I can make some sense of it.
Posted by: ChrisU at October 17, 2005 05:23 PMCrime is the "cash crop" for reporters in that field wouldn't you say? Let me know. http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KevinHinton/2005/10/a_lucritive_bus.html
Posted by: KevinHinton at October 18, 2005 09:03 PMUm, ignore that one trackback. See what happens when you have too many windows open? You link to the wrong assignment...
*sigh* I hate everything.
Posted by: Valerie Masciarelli at October 19, 2005 11:29 PM
