RT Article
T1 Cultivation theory: The impact of crime media's portrayal of race on the desire to become a U.S. police officer
JF International journal of police science & management
VO 24
IS 1
SP 42
OP 52
A1 Pollock, Wendi K.
A2 Tapia, Natalia D
A2 Sibila, Deborah
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1795543515
AB The death of George Floyd on 25 May 2020 again left people asking why U.S. police officers so commonly resort to the use of deadly force when interacting with Black individuals. The current article proposes that media, combined with cultivation theory and social cognition concepts may create implicit biases that are potential contributors to this problem. Police officers have a greater vulnerability to these biases because intake of crime-related media positively predicts their interest in selecting law enforcement as a career. Other predictors of an interest in working in law enforcement, and implications of these findings, are discussed.
K1 Gender
K1 Race
K1 Police–public interaction
DO 10.1177/14613557211036555