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[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/sociologyfacpub Part of the Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance Commons Kort-Butler, Lisa A., "Justice League? Depictions of Justice in Children’s Superhero Cartoons" (2013). Sociology Department, Faculty Publications. 204. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/sociologyfacpub/204 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Sociology, Department of at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Sociology Department, Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Published in Criminal Justice Review 38:1 (2013), pp. 50-69; doi: 10.1177/0734016812467201 Copyright © 2012 Georgia State University; published by SAGE Publications. Used by permission. Justice League? Depictions of Justice in Children’s Superhero Cartoons Lisa A. Kort-Butler Department of Sociology, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, 711 Oldfather Hall, P.O. Box 880324, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA; email
[email protected] Abstract The literature argues that media depictions of criminal justice present messages that conform to and promote the dominant ideology about the crime problem and how to solve it. Research has focused on television news and adult programs, but little re- search has examined messages about justice present in children’s shows.