RT Article
T1 Online public response to Dutch news about money laundering
JF European journal on criminal policy and research
VO 23
IS 2
SP 211
OP 225
A1 Veul, Romy M.
A2 Charldorp, Tessa C. van
A2 Soudijn, Melvin R. J.
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1566509971
AB In this paper we analyze how Dutch Public Prosecution’s press releases about money laundering and underground banking are received by producers and consumers of online news reports. First we take a closer look at how journalists (re)framed six official press releases in 75 news reports. It turns out that journalists do not regularly adopt the success frame that the Public Prosecution uses in its press releases. Furthermore, the role of the Public Prosecution Service or the police is downplayed. The moral message that “crime should not pay” receives no coverage in news reports. Second, we analyze how the news reports generated 276 online comments. We distinguish three ways in which online commenters respond to news reports; they (1) appreciate, (2) downplay or (3) condemn the authorities’ success. Commenters are particularly likely to downplay or condemn the police’s success. When a news report focuses on ‘underground bankers’, commenters often express a negative opinion about the effort to curb money laundering. It also appears that readers did not always understand the use of a term like underground banking.
K1 Communication policy
K1 Conversation analysis
K1 Hawala
K1 Money laundering
K1 Underground banking
K1 Geldwäsche
K1 Kommunikationspolitik
DO 10.1007/s10610-016-9315-0