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SAGE Journal User Guide

Journal Article 6.1: Mills, J.E., Hu, B., Beldona, S., & Clay, J.  (2001).  Cyberslacking!:  A Liability Issue for Wired Workplaces.  Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly, 42, 34-47.  doi:  10.1177/0010880401425004

1.  According to the article, what are some of the potential legal dangers of a wired workplace?  What are the types of activities committed by employees that may pose risks for their employers?  Have you or anyone you know participated in such activities during work hours?

2.  How are the concepts of vicarious liability and respondeat superior being applied?

3.  Do you believe that employers should be responsible for criminal acts committee by their employees during work hours?  Why or why not?  Discuss examples of when employers should be and when they should not be.

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Journal Article 6.2: Jones, P.J. & Wardle, C. (2008).  ‘No emotion, no sympathy’:  The visual construction of Maxine Carr.   Crime Media Culture 4(1), 53-71.  doi:  10.1177/1741659007087271

1.  Summarize the story of Ian Huntley and Maxine Carr.  According to Jones & Wardle (2008), how did the media demonize Carr?  What types of tactics did the media employ to characterize her?  Do you believe this demonization affected the trial?  How so?  How did it affect her life?

2.  Did the fact that Carr was first charged, but later cleared, with two counts of assisting an offender influence the trial and the public admonishment against her?  Do you believe she should have been charged as an accomplice or an accessory?  Why or why not?  Do you believe that those who assist by presenting false alibis for perpetrators be charged as an accomplice or an accessory?  Why or why not?

3.  How much power, do you believe, the media has in shaping public perceptions?  What about public policy?  How has the media created archetypes of criminality?  Discuss examples from different types of media.