Introduction to the topics

There are two different topics that i am deciding between. The first is how incarceration of adults affect children, and put them into poverty. I first read an article on this through a journal i was told to look at. It came to be very interesting to be because i thought that the facts behind it was very interesting. Its about when a mass amount of adults are incarcertated, it leads to a problem with their families and children. It can cause them to live in poverty because when one of the parents is incarcerated, it can cause a major loss of income coming into that certain household. Also when the children become poor, it leads to many unwanted doors becoming open because they can take the wrong path, becuse they dont have as many opportunities being poor. I liked this topic for my paper becasue its very interesting to me. I would search many different questions on it for example, a lot of statistical facts and different studies that were done to prove this point. I also would ask a question of which minorty groups it affects most, and what's the usual family that is being problemized with this. Also i would look into different job offfers that have at different jails and prisons to see if there was any sort of way to revent this poverty. Even though this would be a interesting reseach topic, im not sure if its that biased so i dont know if i could use it.

Another topic which i am really leaning towards is, how mass media affects crime, and if its factual or an ideology. I found this topic by looking through the internet and trying to find different things that i thought were interesting. After looking and not being able to find anything, i was watching tv and all throughout the news was about differnt murders, rapes, robberies, and burglarys that have occured. And i thought to myself, they really amp up these stories to scare the public. I also learned that in my criminology courses. For this topic, i would search up and ask a lot of questions about the actual number of crimes that occur each year. I would also base a lot of my paper on how the media affects us, by putting so much fear into our minds about crime. when in reality its a lot less then we think. Another thing i would like to look up is how and where the most crime is happeneing in our counrty, and which news media is really taking it out of proportion. Also i would look on how different tv shows and commericals make crime up to be something its not. This is a really interesting topic that im probably going to choose to be mine.