Six decades of media routinizing exaggerations concerns and fears

Comparing police crime-rates to newspaper reports for a period of over six decades this reasearch first examined crime reporting in the media. Second, it confirmed what we know: location of crime news in the paper (front page, center), reports length, tone, choice of words, gender, race or class iss...

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Main Author: Ben-Yehuda, Nachman 1948- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2025
In: Deviant behavior
Year: 2025, Volume: 46, Issue: 2, Pages: 213-231
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Keywords:
Kriminalität
Polizei
Medien
Kriminologie
Empirische Forschung
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Summary:Comparing police crime-rates to newspaper reports for a period of over six decades this reasearch first examined crime reporting in the media. Second, it confirmed what we know: location of crime news in the paper (front page, center), reports length, tone, choice of words, gender, race or class issues. Third, it suggests a new challenging insight. Rather than have periodic, discrete crimereports, waves or moral panics, the data indicate that the media maintains inflated, consistent and continuous levels of crime reporting, thereby keeping a relative high level of concern and fear thus normalizing and routinizing these concerns and fears.
Item Description:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 229-231
Physical Description:Illustrationen
ISSN:1521-0456
DOI:10.1080/01639625.2024.2338889