The purpose of this writing assignment is to compare what your textbook states, what the media depicts, and what a person who is or has worked in the courts have to say about the jobs, interactions, and performance of those professionals working in the criminal courts.
To complete this assignment you will need to view a “Criminal Court” themed television show or movie and report on the comparisons between what “Hollywood” and the textbook present about the criminal courts.
The choice of what show or movie you view is up to you. Just be sure that it focuses directly on the criminal courts and is of sufficient length and detail to answer all of the required questions. In particular, you will need to identify at least three different issues, depictions, or concepts of criminal courts that you will use for comparative purposes between the movie/show, and the textbook.
NOTE: For students in need of Closed Captioning or other accessibility services, be sure to select a streaming service (e.g. youtube, netflix, etc) that allows for these accessibility services to be turned on.
Your answer to this Writing Assignment needs to be written in WORD with Times New Roman 12 point font size, one-inch margins, and should be between 2 and 4 pages in length (it has to be at least two full pages in length). All papers require a APA in-text citations and APA references page (a.k.a bibliography). Each page numbered.
In order to receive full credit, your answer has to include all of the following:
1. The name of the movie or television show that you viewed.
2. The reasons why you chose to view this particular criminal court show.
3. Your overall impressions of the criminal court show/movie that you viewed.
4. A summary of the three points of comparison (similarities, differences, or both) between what the show/movie, the textbook, and the criminal courts official teaches about the criminal courts (this portion of the paper is the most significant and should be the majority of your essay).
5. The long-term impact of the experience on you (including whether you are more or less interested in law as a possible career).