Cultivation analysis investigates television's contributions to viewers' conceptions of social
reality. Developed by George Gerbner in the 1960s, cultivation research continues to …

There is a large body of literature examining the media portrayals of white females as both
victims and offenders in crime news, but very little is known about how minority females …

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Abstract THE TEST IS BASED ON THE PREMISE THAT STUDENTS AND FACULTY
MEMBERS CAN INTEGRATE LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCES IN THE STUDY OF CRIMINAL …

Theories of media effects have long established a link between media consumption and fear
of crime. To date, prior investigations have almost exclusively focused on traditional types of …

In the early 1990s, Chicago, the nation's third largest city, instituted the nation's largest
community policing initiative. Wesley G. Skogan here provides the first comprehensive …

This study compares the impact of multiple forms of crime-related media across white,
Latino, and African American respondents on their perception of crime risk in their …

In America today, one in every hundred adults is behind bars. As our prison population has
exploded,'law and order'interest groups have also grown--in numbers and political clout. In …

In this article, we examine the correlates of fear of violence in the cross-media landscape.
The study draws on the Finnish National Crime Victim Survey (n= 6,141, respondents aged …

Objectives A substantial body of literature indicates that certain forms of media consumption
may increase anxiety about crime and support for social controls. However, few studies have …