{"id":1104,"date":"2021-10-25T16:34:56","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T20:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/aclr-online\/volume-54\/the-effects-of-crime-media-on-reality\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:09:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:09:28","slug":"the-effects-of-crime-media-on-reality","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/aclr-online\/volume-54\/the-effects-of-crime-media-on-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"The Effects of Crime Media on Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>In today\u2019s pop-culture climate, there is no shortage of shows depicting the American criminal justice system. In the 2015\u20132016 season, thirteen of the top fifty shows on broadcast network television (based on viewership) were crime dramas or police procedurals. Thirteen new network shows of the 2016\u20132017 season have some kind of criminal justice element.\u00a0<i>Law and Order: Special Victims Unit <\/i>is currently the longest-running scripted, non-animated U.S. primetime series, followed closely by <i>NCIS<\/i>, another procedural. The public\u2019s fascination with the criminal justice system is thus reflected in these media sensations.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/10\/54-0_Howell_The_Effects_of_Crime_Media_on_Reality.pdf\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0In today\u2019s pop-culture climate, there is no shortage of shows depicting the American criminal justice system. In the 2015\u20132016 season, thirteen of the top fifty shows on broadcast network television [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4766,"featured_media":0,"parent":1023,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"abstract.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-1104","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4766"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1107,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1104\/revisions\/1107"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/american-criminal-law-review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}