Ashley James Figured world- Theories that explain how a certain world works.

Within a figured world, and there are expectations about how things such as appropriate actions, language and behaviors should go. Throughout this semester, I will be analyzing and dissecting the figured world of Criminal Justice. The sole purpose of the criminal justice system is to deliver justice for each and every human being, by convicting and punishing any guilty suspect in order to stop their unlawful offending, while protecting the innocent. rders of court need to be carried out in a timely manner, such as collecting fines, and supervising community and custodial punishment by an officer. Any department in the Criminal Justice field is a serious business that can more often than none consist of all wor!, and no play. "re#uently, the system tends to encounter people presumed guilty until proven innocent, or victims in need of help. $ince this is such a large field, I will narrow down my studies by volunteering my time at the %olice $tation on the campus of &'C Charlotte. I will compare and contrast how fictional television shows portray the world of law enforcement with the real world of law enforcement. $ome tas!s that go on a daily basis at any police department consists of answering calls, patrolling the area, and doing your best to !eep your surrounding community safe. The police answer hundreds of calls on a daily basis and are summoned to help any person in need. (eing that this is such a stern job, pran! calls to )** pretending to be in danger would not be acceptable, and you just might have severe conse#uences to face. Also, no disrespectful remar!s should be made towards any officer. $how full cooperation and follow all orders and you will be fine. Tal!ing to an officer in a calm voice is something that is encouraged. +oud noises trigger a defense mechanism for an officer, and they automatically go into defense mode. The ,entalist Actors- people who play significant roles in a figured world: %atric! Jane Consultant for the California (ureau of Investigation. Joins the C(I after his wife and child are brutally murdered by serial !iller, .ed John. &ses tric!s and mind games to close cases. +ess professional than other main characters. /ery playful and coc!y and a master manipulator. bsessed with .ed John. Teresa +isbon 0ead detective of the team. +ets Jane get away with a lot of stuff when it comes to any .ed John case. Constantly has her authority undermined by Jane.

+isbon is very attached to her team but often e1presses an aversion towards anything that ma!es her emotional towards them.

2ayne .igsby 3oes most interrogations and sta!eouts. 3evelops a love relationship with agent /an %elt. $enior agent. 4imball Cho Ta!es his job very seriously and goes by the boo!. .arely smiles or laughs. /ery persuasive interrogator. "ormer gang member. 5race /an %elt .oo!ie of the team. 3oes most office wor!, being that she is a roo!ie and +isbon rarely lets her go into the field. &n!nowingly gets engaged to .ed John6s 7mole8 within the C(I. Conse#uently ends up !illing him when he puts her team in danger and reveals himself. Artifacts- not only physical ite s, but also e otional feelings that are very significant in any different ways to a specific figured world: "ood- Jane uses food in most episodes to ta!e his mind off of things. "ood provides a mental satisfaction rather than physical satisfaction. The infamous blood drawn smiley face by .ed John- Cloc!wise smiley face drawn on wall with victim6s blood once .ed John stri!es again. It is believed he does this to not only taunt investigators, but Jane as well. Couch- li!e stated before, Jane is less serious than the others so most of the time ta!es naps during shifts. unities- groups within a figured world with co on goals and" or traits:

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California (ureau of Investigation 9C(I:- the team the show is based on. The C(I typically closes cases more fre#uently and faster than local police departments. +ocal police departments- would rather wor! on cases without the C(I. A member from every department always gets into it with Jane. unication in a figured world.

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(ecause of the seriousness of their job, jo!es do not play a huge role in the department. ;ven though Jane is not head of the team, whatever he says goes. They trust him enough

because he solves many cases so when he has an idea everyone goes with it. "ollowing Jane allows the team to be very successful because he has never let them down when it came to closing cases. %bservation & 'unday, February (nd 'eason ) *pisode &: <=>> At the beginning of the show, a hostage sends in a video giving a list of names of possible people who could be .ed John. +isbon gets a call shortly after about a case. Jane doesn6t want to go because he wants to continue to wor! towards finding .ed John. 2hen they arrive, a blond female in her mid-twenties is laying deceased on the floor, with a rope around her nec!. Jane e1amines the house. The closet is messy and misplaced, not li!e how a woman would !eep her closet. Clothes and products were also stuffed into drawers instead of placed. Jane #uestions the victim6s husband and within being in the couple6s home for five minutes, Jane suspects her husband of being the !iller. nce Jane confronts him on it, he puts a gun to Jane6s head and holds him hostage. 0e forces him to wal! outside where about *>-*? troops are. Jane lets the cops !now that he replaced the bullets in the guns with peanuts. The suspect pulls another weapon from his belt strap and proceeds to shot at the officers. After he fires about @ rounds, he receives appro1imately A bullets wounds to the chest and collapses. <=BB (ecause of the shot out which leads to an officer getting wounded, Jane and +isbon must report to the director of the C(I, 5ale (ertram, who6s name was on the list as a possible .ed John. 0e as!s Jane about the case and says he heard Jane is getting closer to solving the case, which is suspicious to Jane because he hasn6t told anyone about his progress on the case. As punishment for the shoot out, Jane and +isbon must choose between suspensions, or to go on an out of state case. They choose to wor! on a case in ,e1ico. <=B< Against Jane6s wishes, +isbon confides in Agent /an %elt about the < possible suspects who could be .ed John. $he orders /an %elt to put a 5%$ bug on each of the < men phones. $!eptically, she agrees. $he begins acting odd and her husband Agent 2ayne .igsby #uestions her, but she cant say anything because she was also ordered not to say anything because everyone who !nows about the list has a high chance of being in danger. <=C) Jane realizes +isbon told /an %elt and pulls them both aside. Jane shuns her for putting a 5%$ trac!er on their phones, because he !nows .ed John will !now and use that against them. +isbon feels as if Jane #uestions her authority and gets very upset. $he decided to leave ,e1ico and go bac! to $acramento and !eep an eye on the < suspects.

<=A* Jane then finds out that /an %elt told .igsby about the list and .igsby told Agent 4imball Cho. 'ow Jane is worried for the safety of his team because all ? of them are now in danger. <=A) Jane uses a waitresses 7psychic8 abilities to solve the case, which leads to the waitress being one of the suspects. <=?@ Jane continuously tries to reach call +isbon, but she !eeps sending him to voicemail. +isbon is called to respond to call at a house. 2hen she loo!s it up, she sees one of the phones is at that location. $he calls for bac! up which is delayed, so she goes in the house by herself. 2hile searching the house, she opens a closet and a body of one of the men that they suspected to be .ed John falls out. $he turns around and is then bombarded by .ed John. Jane finally gets a call bac! from +isbon6s phone, but it6s .ed John. 0e paints +isbon6s face with the infamous counter-cloc!wise smiley face. bservation B $unday, "ebruary Bnd $eason @ ;pisode B D=*C %olice finally respond the house +isbon was at. They find her down and rush her to the hospital. .ed John did nothing to harm her, which spoo!s her and Jane even more. D=B> The hospital wont release +isbon, so Cho, Jane, and .igsby must report bac! to her via phone calls about a new case they are on. D=BC 2ith one suspect dead, and @ people left on the list, all the agents begin to wor! harder at finding out who .ed John is. ne man whose name is on the list visits +isbon in the hospital, which frea!s her out and !eeps her on edge. $he leaves the hospital without being officially released. D=C> +isbon tells /an %elt to reverse the 5%$ trac!ing system on all the suspects, because as Jane said in the last observation, .ed John !nows. Jane goes to visit his former psychiatrist 9whom he confided in after id wife and daughter were brutally murdered: suspecting that .ed John is learning all his information from her. 2hen he rings her doorbell, she doesn6t answer, so Jane brea!s in. 0e sees a note that says 73inner in the oven8 on her refrigerator with the infamous .ed John smiley face, so he decides to open the oven. 2hen he does, his psychiatrist6s head is in there.

D=CC Three of the men on the list show up to the C(I office at the same time, so Jane pulls them all in the office together because they all tell him to !eep them updated on new information he finds out about .ed John. Jane speculates .ed John !illed $ophie ,iller 9his psychiatrist: because she could identify him. They feel as if he posed as a client for a couple of visits, then decides to !ill her. Against orders, +isbon orders .igsby to search ,illers house for her appointment boo!. D=A? 2hile searching through ,illers appointment boo!s, .igsby comes across four names that stand out. In other words, four men that have visited once or twice to never return. The four names are ;arnest ,athewson, ,itchell +ivingston, ,iguel (amario, and Jay .oth. The name Jay .oth immediately stic!s out to Jane because .oth is from the 5erman word rot, which means red. $he met with 7Jay .oth8 five and a half months ago. 2hen searching for the file of the session, it is nowhere to be found. They also chec! the university where she wor!ed as well, and still come up empty-handed. D=?* +isbon is upset they couldn6t find the files, and wonders why Jane isn6t as distraught. Jane e1plains he isn6t as worried because he !nows something .ed John doesn6t !now. 2hen he bro!e into her home, Jane poc!eted $ophie6s tape recorder !nowing that she had never learned how to type, so she voice-recorded each session. D=?A 2hile listening to preliminary diagnostics report of .ed John, ,iller concludes that he6s middle aged, with good health. 'o prior psychiatric issues, and has no living family. 0owever, he relies on his company for emotional support. 0e is well spo!en, has good posture and is self-possessed. 2hile waiting for his appointment, he sat calmly needing no distraction. ,iller also states he is an e1cellent whistler with a pleasant selfpresentation but has hints in his behavior of a damaged, narcissistic personality. 3uring their session, he states he deals with conflict well but ,iller isn6t convinced. $he senses something deceptive and dar! in his emotional ma!eup and determines he has a phobia of some sort, most li!ely acrophobia. $he ends her tape of saying she loo!s forward to more sessions with him, not !nowing that he is truly .ed John and her future is going to soon be cut short. %bservation + 'unday, February (nd 'eason ) *pisode + )=>> A 7John 3oe8 which is an unidentified male body is found dead in 'apa /alley, California which Jane and +isbon are called to investigate. The sheriff of the town, whose

name is also on the list, is also on the scene. Jane challenges the sheriff to what he speculates happened to the John 3oe and how is was murdered. 0e does this to toy with his head and get any reason to believe he could be .ed John.

)=>) Jane spots a bloody hammer, which is on a high shelf that re#uires the sheriff to climb up a ladder to get. The sheriff hesitates and gives all types of e1cuses as to why he can6t go up the ladder. This stands out to Jane and +isbon, because in the previous episode in ,illers recordings she describes .ed John as acrophobia, which means afraid of heights. )=** The John 3oe is found out to be 7&ncle +arry8 the uncle of a soon to be bride. The groom and the bride family don6t get along at all. 2hile trying to interrogate the family together, the bride calls off the wedding. )=B@ Jane convinces /an %elt to approach the bride and tal! her into going on with the marriage as planned. It wor!s, and Jane agrees to marry the couple being that they can6t find a priest. )=CA Jane finds out that the sheriff is a hunter, which is another trait that .ed John had. Jane, /an %elt, Cho, .igsby and +isbon all attend the wedding e1pecting the !iller will snea! out of the reception. )=A> 2hile trying to serve as a distraction, .igsby gets on the microphone and proposes to /an %elt. ;ven though it was a distraction, the engagement is real. $hortly after /an %elt says yes, sure enough the suspect, the bride6s brother rushes out. )=?B Jane figures out that &ncle +arry caught the suspect stealing so he !illed him to cover up his crime. 2hen confronted, he holds Jane hostage. 0e brings Jane to the roof of the church in order for him to escape. ut of nowhere, the sheriff shows up on a ladder at the top of the roof and shots the suspect. (ecause he was on top of a building and also saved Jane, they eliminate him from the list of possible .ed Johns, leaving five other men. )=?< The day after .igsby6s proposal, /an %elt and .igsby wed at the justice of the peace.

!escription of #ocation: The interrogation room is a small dar! room, with one door. A rectangular table with three chairs is placed in the middle of the room. Two chairs on one side where the agentsEinterrogators sit, and one chair on the opposite side for the suspect. A bright lamp is placed on the edge of the table, facing the side with only one chair. The light is used as a techni#ue to shine in a suspects face. The light can agitate some people and help brea! them down easier. The light also adds intensity. ne wall in the interrogation room is completely glass, which is a two-sided mirror. "rom in the room, you can6t see the other side, however if you are standing on the opposite side of the glass you can view the interrogation without being spotted.

,nterview with %fficer -arlos .alentin of the /0- -harlotte $olice !epart ent:

F= 0ow did you get into the criminal justice fieldG

A= 7I was luc!y enough to have a friend who was a police officer, so I went on a ridealong with him one day. I got to see some interesting things and it was pretty fun. I immediately !new that law enforcement was something I had a passion for. F= Tell me about a day in the life of a campus police officer. A= 72e start of with roll call, then we are assigned an area we must patrol on campus. Hou can either be assigned foot patrol, bi!e patrol, or vehicle patrol. 2e encounter numerous amount of students on a daily basis. ,ost days are calm and we don6t encounter many severe problems.8 F= 5ive an e1ample of some encounters you may come across on campus, and not necessarily as a police officer in city limits. A= 7%atrolling the school area, us officers serve mostly as customer service associates. 2e can do anything from giving a student a jump to wor!ing with CAT$ on campus which is something you wouldn6t do wor!ing for a department such as C,%3.8 F= 0ow do you feel about the way television shows portray criminal justiceG 3o you feel it is over e1aggerated or pretty accurateG 2hyG A= The way policing and investigating is shown on T/ can sometimes be frustrating. Those fictional shows ma!es it loo! li!e our jobs are easier than it really is. 2ith that being said, it is very over e1aggerated. $hows such as the "irst AD are very precise. It shows the hardships we really go through.

F= 2hat6s the best part of your jobG 2hat is the worstG A= The best part of being a police officer is !nowing that I am ma!ing a difference to everyone I come in contact with. I learned from my mother to be a very helpful person, so I love that I can help whoever needs my assistance. The most difficult part of my job is seeing young people ruining their future. I don6t li!e seeing !ids out here stealing, fighting and murdering. I want everyone to succeed in life and if you are brea!ing the law before your life really begins, you will only end up in jail.