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18 Seton Hall J. Sports & Ent. L. 1 (2008)
Guilty on All Accounts: Law &(and) Order's Impact on Public Perception of Law and Order

handle is hein.journals/shjsl18 and id is 5 raw text is: GUILTY ON ALL ACCOUNTS: LAW & ORDER'S IMPACT ON PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF LAW AND ORDER Kimberlianne Podlas* INTRODUCTION ........................................................................ 2 I. POPULAR CULTURE AND THE MEDIA ..................................... 4 A. Culture as Classroom ................................................ 5 B. The Stories of Pop Culture: The Layperson's E m m anuel ............................................................... 7 II. TELEVISION AS A LEGAL STORYTELLER ............................... 8 III. THE IMPACT OF MEDIA PORTRAYALS ................................ 10 IV. TELEVISION'S PORTRAYAL OF ATTORNEYS ........................ 15 V. ASSESSING TELEVISION'S PORTRAYALS ............................. 20 VI. LAW & ORDER .................................................................. 23 VII. EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF LAW & ORDER ......................... 26 A. Methodology of the Study ....................................... 27 B. Quantitative Results .............................................. 28 C. Qualitative Results ............................................... 30 VIII. THE MORAL OF LAW & ORDER'S STORIES ...................... 30 A. Endorsement of Crime Control Values: The Crime Control M odel ......................................................... 31 B . Screening ............................................................... 33 C. Constitutional Rights .............................................. 34 D. Debate of Issues ...................................................... 36 E. Those Who Seek or Impede Justice ........................ 38 F. Celebrating the Character of Prosecutors .............. 39 G. Defense Attorneys as Absence of Justice ............... 41 IX. THE IMPACT OF LAW & ORDER-GENERATED IDEOLOGIES .... 43 A . Policy-Related ......................................................... 43 B. Jury-Related ........................................................... 45 CONCLUSION .......................................................................... 47 * Assistant Professor of Media Law (UNC-Greensboro); Associate Appellate Counsel (Criminal Appeals Bureau, NYC); Executive Board, ACLU of North Carolina, J.D. cum laude University of Buffalo School of Law.

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