TY - JOUR
T1 - Six Decades of Media Routinizing Exaggerations Concerns and Fears
AU - Ben-Yehuda, Nachman
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85190443834&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/01639625.2024.2338889
DO - 10.1080/01639625.2024.2338889
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AN - SCOPUS:85190443834
SN - 0163-9625
JO - Deviant Behavior
JF - Deviant Behavior
ER -