IN GROUPS YOU WILL NOW CHOOSE; A STYLE OF PROGRAMMING FOR YOUR
INTERVIEW THE TOPIC OF THE INTERVIEW THE PURPOSE FOR THE INTERVIEW.
WHEN RESEARCHING, YOUR RESEARCH WILL BE MARKED IN THREE DIFFERENT AREAS…
Purpose of research Preparatory research Methods of research
Identify key facts about topic Identify potential issues & identify potential areas
of interest
Highlight areas of interest or concern
surrounding topic
Identify relevant matters in interviewee’s
background (see below)
Preparatory research Observe or read previous interviews Establish key facts about topic
Primary - preliminary interviews and discussion
with interviewees (and others, e.g. people who give you ideas who to interview... or how to move your topic on)
Secondary - such as books, websites, television
programmes, DVD commentaries, interviews with others
Drug smuggling: Should these girls be let off because it was allegedly forced upon them
If Melissa and Michaella were each convicted of the amount allegedly
found in their own luggage, they could face seven years. But if one was found guilty of being responsible for the entire haul she could be jailed for between 15 and 25 years.
Although originally built to hold 230 inmates, Santa Monica de Chorrillos
women’s prison, where Melissa and Michaella are, houses many more than 230 inmates, and includes some of the inmates’ children. The cramped jail, surrounded by high walls, has no running water and often no electricity. Drugs are rife and food is said to be rationed to rice three times a day.
Peru is still trying to come to terms with the trauma of a two-decade
conflict - roughly from 1980 to 2000 - between the state and the leftist guerrilla groups, the Shining Path and the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement. The warfare is thought to have claimed nearly 70,000 lives, most of them Andean peasants. It's ruthlessness was in large part due to the fanatical following of the leader of the Shining Path, Abimael Guzman, whose capture in 1992 in effect disbanded the guerrilla movement.
However, the Shining Path continues to have a small political following. And offshoots of the group are said to be involved in the cocaine trade. The United Nations believes that Peru has become the world's biggest
producer of coca leaf, and now rivals Colombia for cocaine production.
Critics of the war on drugs argue that squeezing production in one
country - such as Colombia - just makes the traffickers transfer their operations elsewhere, such as Peru.
While drug trafficking has made a major contribution to the economy -
almost 17% of the country's gross domestic product in 2009, according to the Peruvian government - environmentalists are concerned about the impact coca growing and cocaine production is having on the rainforests, both because of deforestation and the dumping of the chemicals involved in the drug's manufacture.
Possible issues within this topic are;
Should the two young girls be sent to prison despite being held at gunpoint or should they serve time because they still did wrong?
Should they be sentence in the UK rather than Peru?
Should drugs be legalized to stop this happening?
Areas of insight Consequences of people who drug smuggle in light of recent arrest of two young British citizens. To raise awareness/ highlight the severity of sentences and consequences of illegal drug trafficking. Understanding of foreign prison, law and justice system
Area of interest: Should UK citizen arrested abroad be brought back to the UK and sentenced here? Should drugs be legalized globally, thus illuminating drugs trafficking all together? Concern surrounding topic: May be hard to get someone to be interviewed as its such a new topic they may be unavailable You may find people don’t want to address their honest opinion in case they get into trouble.
Opinion: Does agree with the sentencing as it’s a crime, however doesn’t believe in the conditions that Brits are put in. Work does she do: Theresa Gibson has worked for the charity Prisoners Abroad for almost ten years. Prisoners abroad cares for the health and well-being of thousands of British citizens held overseas. We provide essential services such as: vitamins and essential food, emergency medical care, water filters, freepost envelopes to keep in touch with home, books and magazines. In this role she has lead responsibility for the delivery of all services to prisoners, families and resettlement clients; responsibility for the proactive development of services in line with the strategic plan of the charity; and develops links and relationships with appropriate external agencies, including statutory authorities. Theresa gained a Diploma in Social Work at Brunel University College. Why she was chosen: Long background on the subject, able to express to viewers a real insight into condition in foreign prisons and able to promotes people against doing this sort of action when abroad. Performance: Nervous as first, but had solid subject knowledge, rapport building needed to get her to open up with her opinions as she may not be likely to be forth coming.