RT Article
T1 Examination of newspaper coverage of Hate Crimes: A moral panic perspective
JF American journal of criminal justice
VO 28
IS 2
SP 147
OP 163
A1 Colomb, Wendy
A2 Damphousse, Kelly
LA English
YR 2004
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1764204263
AB The role of the media in the construction of social problems is well documented in the social science literature. In some cases, the process of constructing social problems creates a moral panic. In this paper, we contend that a moral panic occurred in the late 1990s regarding hate crimes because of the disproportionate amount of media attention given to the issue. From this panic grew a movement to enact the Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 1999. We quantify Goode and Ben-Yehuda’s (1999) indicators of a moral panic by triangulating sample data, official statistics, and editorials/opinion polls. Results suggest that a moral panic over hate crimes occurred in America during 1998 and 1999.
K1 Newspaper Coverage
K1 Uniform Crime Report
K1 Federal Bureau
K1 Moral Panic
K1 Hate Crime
DO 10.1007/BF02885869