Polls, politics, and crime: the law and order issue of the 1960s

Conventional and scholarly opinion hold that public crime concerns in the 1960s reached, for the first time in history, the status of number one domestic problem, and that the civil disturbances of the era exacerbated white Americans’ crime fears. Our systematic reanalysis of both the polling data a...

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1. VerfasserIn: Loo, Dennis D. (VerfasserIn)
Beteiligte: Grimes, Ruth-Ellen M.
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2004
In: Western criminology review
Jahr: 2004, Band: 5, Heft: 1, Seiten: 50-67
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Schlagwörter:
1960s
Kriminalitätsfurcht
Öffentliche Meinung
Rassenbeziehungen
Law and Order
Geschichte
Soziale Bewegungen
Medien
Moral Panics
Index crime – 1960s
Public Opinion
Public Opinion Polls
Most Important Problem
Race Relations
Social Movements
Riots
Elite-Engineered
Race and Crime
Media Studies
Political Process Theory
Neo-liberalism
Usa
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Zusammenfassung:Conventional and scholarly opinion hold that public crime concerns in the 1960s reached, for the first time in history, the status of number one domestic problem, and that the civil disturbances of the era exacerbated white Americans’ crime fears. Our systematic reanalysis of both the polling data and riot incidence data of that period finds the conventional and scholarly opinion to be erroneous. Our analysis of the role of media, public officials, and pollsters in shaping the prevailing view about crime during the 1960s supports a hypothesis of an eliteengineered moral panic.
Beschreibung:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 64-67