RT Article
T1 Legitimating war by victimization: state-corporate crime and public opinion
JF Crime, law and social change
VO 56
IS 3
SP 301
OP 317
A1 Klein, Josh
A1 Lavery, Cathy
A2 Lavery, Cathy
LA English
YR 2011
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1854766066
AB This article argues that the ideological use of victimization helps legitimate the state-corporate crime of aggressive war. This contributes to the emerging criminology of war by offering a theoretical framework to better understand how state and corporate actors legitimate criminal military action. We argue that politicians and other elite figures promote a sense of national victimization that is amplified by the news media. We partially test our theory by measuring the association between the incidence of terror victimization ideas in the news and public support for the U.S. "war on terror." We find some evidence of relationships between our Terrorism Victimization Index and both victimization worry and aggressive war support.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 315-317
K1 Media Content
K1 Moral Panic
K1 Personal Worry
K1 Public Opinion
K1 Victimization Worry
DO 10.1007/s10611-011-9323-4