A different lens?: how ethnic minority media cover crime

There is a growing body of literature on the nexus of media, race, and crime, which reveals that crime is exaggerated in mainstream media and that these same venues tend to racialize crime and criminalize race. The impact of this is that inaccurate public perceptions about the frequency, seriousness...

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Autor principal: Douai, Aziz 1973- (Autor)
Otros Autores: Perry, Barbara 1962-
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2018
En: Canadian journal of criminology and criminal justice
Año: 2018, Volumen: 60, Número: 1, Páginas: 96-121
Acceso en línea: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Palabras clave:
Ethnic minority groups
Immigration
Globalization
Crime
Media construction
Ethnic media
Ethnische Minderheiten
Mediale Representation
Kriminalberichterstattung
Mediale Konstruktion
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Sumario:There is a growing body of literature on the nexus of media, race, and crime, which reveals that crime is exaggerated in mainstream media and that these same venues tend to racialize crime and criminalize race. The impact of this is that inaccurate public perceptions about the frequency, seriousness, and demographic distribution of crime are reinforced. Interestingly, however, there have been no focused efforts to explore the ways in which crime is featured within the media targeting specific racial and ethnic communities. We know little about whether such outlets reproduce these patterns. This pilot [End Page 96] study is intended to initiate an examination of the representation of crime news in Canada's ethnic media, exploring the patterns of crime reporting in such outlets and comparing the ways in which such news is presented to different audiences. We conducted a content analysis of two English-language newspapers in the Greater Toronto Area, which nonetheless serve specific racial and ethnic communities. Quantitative (e.g., frequency) and qualitative (e.g., themes) findings from the study offer insights into crime reporting patterns, as well as the nature of crime coverage in the studied newspapers.
ISSN:1911-0219
DOI:i:10.3138/cjccj.2016-0013.r2