The summer of exams and the real crime reporting is here – and it is not even the day of commemoration

A constant influx of crime drama and exams often floods the national conversation. In some cases, the attention of the public is attracted and society is permanently shaped. And we have a particularly busy summer from headlines license attempts.

And it's not even the day of commemoration.

Karen Read is reproduced because of her alleged participation in the death of her police officer friend, and the shameful Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein is back to court because of the Refled New York case after a Upper Judgment was put down. This week a jury was sitting in the long -awaited exam of the music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs.

These exams have already started, but their complexity ensures that they will extend in the next few months – and further cases are going through the dishes.

The legal proceedings make space for a national discussion about what is right and what is wrong at a time when we judge how we interact with the public personalities that represent our national morality.

When information becomes more accessible, discussions in online communities such as Reddit, Tiktok and YouTube have changed the way in which public experience experience law and order, experts say.

“The advent of social media and the 24/news cycle made it very possible for everyone to get more in current criminal proceedings, crime complaints, crime reporting, in particular the reporting on ongoing, actual exams,” said Kelli Boling, assistant professor at the College of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

The audience is “much easier than 20 years ago”, she added.

No matter how these cases go, one thing is certain: people will talk about them.

Karen Read, who, according to the prosecutor, drunk her friend in January 2022 in Canton, Massachusetts, drunk drunk, started the court time on April 1.

It is the second time that she was brought to trial after a jury had no judgment last year and the judge declared a mistial. Read, 45, has not guilty because of the Murder's second degree, a vehicle crash, while he has intoxicated and left the place of a collision that leads to death.

She is the only defendant in the series of top -class cases this year.

The resumption of Harvey Weinstein for sexual crime began on April 15 in New York, after the New York Court of Appeal lifted its conviction last year, and said that the testimony of witnesses of “previous bad acts” should not have been permitted.

The former film producer, who had fallen unexpectedly, sees two charges of the first degree sexual act and a number of rapes of third degrees with allegations of three women, to whom he has not guilty. He has also repeatedly denied allegations that he has ever raped or sexually attacked. This will be his third legal proceedings in five years after he was later lifted in New York in 2020 to his conviction, and a trial in Los Angeles in 2022, in which he was convicted of three further charges.

Weinstein's case, one of the first in a greater cultural settlement with sexual violence, can be an indicator of the climate seven years after his first indictment and in the middle of a new Trump presidency.

The case against Sean “Diddy” Combs is another cultural moment for the top -class music mogul. The jury's selection will be resumed on Monday In his federal procedure, in which he is exposed to charges for conspiracy, means of transport for prostitution and sex trade. Combs did not know and denied the allegations, although he publicly apologized that he had attacked the former friend Cassie Ventura in a video published by CNN. The opening statements are expected to start on Monday And the attempt is expected to take several weeks.

Finally, the case against Bryan Kohberger, who has been accused of killing four students from the University of Idaho in 2022 in their house outside the campus, is to begin after several years of complicated legal disputes. The case of the death penalty was subjected to intensive online interest from the start and is expected to take at least three months.

And although there is currently no new process for Erik and Lyle Menendez that serve for the murders of their parents in Beverly Hills in prison, their hearings will take place next weekPresent what could make you justified for the probation immediately. The complex case has been in public awareness again for several years after new documentaries and a recommendation of the previous district prosecutor in Los Angeles that the brothers are annoying. You have a separate petition for a new procedure, and the probation committee has a hearing with the brothers in June to ask the governor of mercy.

The facts in these cases vary, but one aspect is out of the question: the public takes care of.

Although some believe that real creation of crime is a recent phenomenon, there is a long story of Americans who are interested in crime and talk about crime, said Adam Golub, professor of American studies at California State University, Fullerton.

“The Americans have been obsessed with crime and violence for hundreds of years and return to public executions,” he said. “In the colonial new England, they know that people from all areas would come to gather and observe a criminal as he was executed, and to listen to a sermon of a minister who explains everything that was wrong with this criminal.”

Some are wondering whether the interest in crime content is ethical, but Golub said there are many different reasons why people are interested.

“A lot of this is social, and especially in this age of the digital true crime and online found. Much of it (because) true crime is a community for people who come together and talk about crime, in a way that they couldn't have before,” he said.

These conversations can be particularly important for women who often get silent when they talk about their experiences with violence, said Boling. This is particularly relevant because research shows that every fourth women around the world experienced violence from a male intimate partner at least once in their lives, added.

“The women with whom I have spoken are the victims of violence that are in this crime content in this contents of the crime often say that they listen because they do not see themselves in the media and other women who have gone through are in a way cathartic,” she said.

“I think maybe what we see is that the increase in reporting feels, probably just a precise representation of reporting about what really happens for the first time in our society, and it feels how much cover.”

Crime and process opinions also speak for changing cultural norms

Many of the Golub students have researched and committed the history of the Menendez brothers and the murder of their parents, even though it happens before their birth. Her opinion about the case differs “dramatically” from the way people looked at the case at the time and his students have a “more sensitive, more nuanced understanding of the victims”, he said.

“How we see the true crime and how we tell the history of true crime is always informed by the same conditions on site,” said Golub. “Whatever the cultural climate is, the postponement of gender and politics in America will inform how we deal with these cases.”

The same principle can apply in the READ case in which her defense team framed the non-servant police, which she framed for the death of her friend, who was also in the local police department. At a time when the violence committed by the police is part of the national conversation, people will be more skeptical, as they use power, said Boling.

“We see a lot of corruption in police stations, in crime content, in the actual crime reporting and in the real court injury,” she said. “I think we may only be in our society at a time when people are ready to entertain the idea that they could have been framed by police officers because we saw this in other exams.”

This can also be seen in other controversial cases that go through the court system. Luigi Mangione, who was accused of having killed the CEO of Unitedhealthcare last year, Brian Thompson, inspired the open conviction by civil servants while at the same time had a great contingent of supporters.

“I think a lot of outrage that we saw in this case is just a kind of pent -up rage about our health situation in this society,” said Boling. “Obviously we shouldn't tolerate murder for some reason, but there is a lot of anger about health care, and that makes Luigi Mangione a very personable history.”

If cases like Mangiones go viral, the difficulty is that “a lot can be too out of date” or can be lost in conversation, Golub said.

“There are a lot that can be reinterpreted in a way that is not exactly exactly,” he said. “We are currently living in an environment in which it is a bit wild West, what the truth is … who the victim is and who the perpetrator is. This is somehow exposed to the reassessment.”