Médias crime et justice

23 janvier à 13h30, au B-3285.

Conférenciers : Yves Boisvert (La Presse) ; Aaron Doyle (Université Carleton) ; Jonathan Freedman (Université de Toronto) ; Brian Myles (Le Devoir) ; Julian Sher (juliansher.com).

Table ronde ouverte au public

Animée par Stéphane Leman-Langlois
Vendredi le 23 janvier 2009
13h30 à 15h30
Salle B-3285, 3e étage, 3200 Jean-Brillant

la discussion s'est tenue en français et en anglais

La table ronde a couvert plusieurs aspects de la relation médias-crime-réponse au crime, dont la représentation de la criminalité dans l'information et la fiction, l'effet de la violence médiatisée sur le comportement et l'utilisation des médias par la police ou d'autres institutions de contrôle social.

Conférenciers

Aaron Doyle is an associate professor in the department of sociology and anthropology at Carleton University, where he has been based since 2002. He has published four books (all with University of Toronto Press) including Arresting Images: Crime and Policing in Front of the Television Camera. Doyle has also published a number of articles on crime and the media, including research on media coverage of prisons and on the reality TV show "Cops." He teaches a course at Carleton University called "Crime, Media and Culture." Doyle currently holds a SSHRC standard research grant for a project on public experiences of risk and fear. In younger days, he worked as a reporter on the police beat for several smaller newspapers.

Jonathan Freedman is Professor of Psychology and Deputy Provost at the University of Toronto.  He received his BA from Harvard University and MA and PhD from Yale University.  He taught at Stanford and Columbia before coming to the University of Toronto as chair of the Psychology department.  His research has involved social influence, the effects of crowding and more recently legal issues such as what affects juries and the role of pretrial publicity.  Of particular relevance to this conference, he has devoted more than two decades to studying the literature on the effect of media violence on aggression. His recent book on the subject is Media Violence and Its Effect on Aggression (UofT Press, 2002).

Brian Myles est journaliste au quotidien Le Devoir depuis 15 ans, où il couvre les actualités judiciaires, les faits divers et les grands enjeux reliés à la criminalité. Il est également titulaire d'une maîtrise ès Arts (UQAM). Son mémoire de maîtrise porte sur les représentations sociales au sujet des Noirs dans les médias de masse québécois, dans une perspective constructiviste.

Julian Sher is an award-winning investigative journalist in print, TV, radio, and on the Web. His books on crime and the justice system have been translated into four languages and sold in seven countries. His latest book, One Child at a Time: Inside the Police Hunt to Rescue Children from Online Predators has been hailed by reviewers as "riveting" "eye-opening and "gripping." Gaining extraordinary behind-the-scenes access, he spent two years following the work of the Canadian police as wells as the FBI and police agencies around the world.  He also interviewed convicted child abusers in prison, victims and their families. He has twice won the Arthur C. Ellis award given by the Crime Writers of Canada for the Best True Crime Book of the Year.  He has filmed, written and produced other major documentaries across the globe, covering nuclear terrorism, wars, scandals, corruption and human rights in Afghanistan, Iraq, Africa, Russia, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and across North America. For the CBC, his documentaries have won numerous awards, included a Gemini.  In 2006, he directed a New York Times-CBC TV investigation called “Nuclear Jihad” which won the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, the broadcast equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize.
He sits of the Ethics Committee of the Canadian Association of Journalists.