In today’s society, there are many influences that attempt to construct our views on crime, offenders, and the criminal justice system, but there is no other that has as much success as the popular media. With exceptional material from qualitative research methods such as the ethnographic content analysis (ECA) of popular films and movies, Constructing Crime and Justice on Film: Meaning and Message in Cinema sufficiently explains how films and television dramas impact the way society views the criminal justice system and all of which is affiliated. Welsh, Fleming, and Dowler explain in many ways how Jeff Ferrell’s Cultural Criminology perspective is prevalent in today’s popular culture. In a study conducted by Liska and Baccaglini (1990), whites,
