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Law & Order
THE INTERPRETATION OF JUSTICE
» Tuesday 27 July 2010 | 5 pm
» Hooked on Books, 225 Main Street, Penticton
An informal afternoon hour showcasing ideas and people in the Okanagan creative economy. Join us as sociologist Chris Schneider presents a startling examination of how Canadian perceptions of the law and justice are influenced by one of the most popular American crime dramas on television.
» $2 at the door. Refreshments will be available.
» Seating is limited, please reserve yours HERE
Exposing the Differences in Canadian and American Justice Systems
"In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime, and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders. These are their stories."
In his research program "American Crime Dramas in Canada: The Case of Law & Order" Christopher J. Schneider examines perceptions of the law influenced by the Law & Order television program, one of the most popular and successful crime drama shows on both Canadian and American television. Drawing from semi-structured in depth interviews, he examines Canadian university student perceptions of Canadian law drawn from the American entertainment crime drama Law & Order. This research takes a more direct (and under explored) approach toward better understanding the influence of crime media on individuals, a process that moves beyond previous efforts that have attempted to link effects of crime with media representations of crime.
On Tuesday, July 27th at 5 pm the alternate weekly Okanagan Institute Outlook series at Hooked on Books in Penticton presents The Interpretation of Law & Order. Join us as sociologist Chris Schneider presents a startling examination of how Canadian perceptions of the law and justice are influenced by one of the most popular American crime dramas on television.
 Christopher J. Schneider is an Assistant Professor in Sociology in the
Barber School of Arts & Sciences at the University of British Columbia,
Okanagan. Dr. Schneider has received numerous awards for both his
teaching and scholarly research including most recently the 2010
Provost's Public Education Through Media Award. He has published in
Critical Criminology: An International Journal, The Handbook of Emergent
Methods and Studies in Symbolic Interaction among others. His research
has been featured nationally across Canada on CBC Radio One and in
Maclean's Magazine and locally through various media. Additionally, Dr.
Schneider appears as a frequent commentator on CBC British Columbia and
AM1150, News, Talk, Sports for the Okanagan.
His research focuses on culture, deviance, and social control. He investigates the connections between mass media, culture, and technology, and how these contribute to changes in social interaction and social control. His intellectual and theoretical approach is interdisciplinary and includes perspectives consistent with criminology, sociology, cultural studies, and media and communication studies. More broadly, he investigates the process, meanings and social consequences of mass media messages about crime and deviance. He tracks news and popular culture documents utilizing qualitative methodology grounded in a symbolic interactionist perspective that is oriented to the examination of the cultural context of meanings associated with select practices. This approach illuminates the frames, discourse, and meanings found in news reports with everyday life participants, on the one hand, and agents of social control, on the other hand.
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The Interpretation of Law & Order takes place at Hooked on Books, 225 Main Street, Penticton. This is the 7th event the Okanagan Institute has held there, and the 156rd public presentation offered in the Okanagan since 2007.
Outlook is hosted by Robert MacDonald. The Institute has played host to many Okanagan luminaries, including former deputy secretary general of Amnesty International Derek Evans, artists Lee Claremont and Gary Pearson, BC Book Award nominee Don Gayton, CBC Literary prize winner poet Harold Rhenisch, distinguished editor and author Jim Taylor, poet laureate and professor John Lent, creative entrepreneur Nikos Theodosakis, animator and filmmaker Jim Cliffe, community activist Don Elzer, dancer David LaHay, architect Jim Meiklejohn, culinary artist and writer Heidi Noble, broadcaster Marion Barschel and many others from a wide range of creative fields.
The Okanagan Institute is a group of creative professionals that has gathered around the goal of providing events, publications and services of interest to enquiring minds in the Okanagan. We partner with individuals, organizations, institutions and businesses to achieve optimal creative and social impact.
Our mission is to ignite cultural transformation, catalyze collaborative action, build networks and foster sustainable creative enterprises. We invite the participation by all members of the creative community.
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