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Juror Number Six
| Length: | 42 min |
| Released: | 2008 |
| Ages: |
High School College Adult |
This short film explores the symbiotic relationship between the media, crime, and the judicial system. Through interviews with legal and communications experts, it shows how today's 24/7 news culture and television dramas create a climate of fear that effects judicial process.
On TV news, ‘reality’ cop-shows, rap music videos, and TV series such as CSI, minorities are often presented as potentially dangerous criminals, reinforcing perceptions that white, middle-class people are at risk of being attacked by people of color.
"You might not think media-influenced perceptions matter that much," NBC’s Renee Ferguson remarks. "But when you bring those perceptions into a jury room, it does matter... Do you really want decisions like that to be influenced by what a juror saw on cable TV last night?"
The film comes packaged with a 30-minute version of Race to Execution
Race to Execution is a gripping documentary that offers a compelling investigation of America’s death penalty, probing how race discrimination infects our capital punishment system. The film neither advocates nor repudiates the death penalty; instead, it enlarges the conversation regarding capital punishment, focusing attention on the races of the jury members and victims.
On TV news, ‘reality’ cop-shows, rap music videos, and TV series such as CSI, minorities are often presented as potentially dangerous criminals, reinforcing perceptions that white, middle-class people are at risk of being attacked by people of color.
"You might not think media-influenced perceptions matter that much," NBC’s Renee Ferguson remarks. "But when you bring those perceptions into a jury room, it does matter... Do you really want decisions like that to be influenced by what a juror saw on cable TV last night?"
The film comes packaged with a 30-minute version of Race to Execution
Race to Execution is a gripping documentary that offers a compelling investigation of America’s death penalty, probing how race discrimination infects our capital punishment system. The film neither advocates nor repudiates the death penalty; instead, it enlarges the conversation regarding capital punishment, focusing attention on the races of the jury members and victims.
