Crime, News and Fear of Crime: Toward an Identification of Audience Effects

Chiricos, Ted; Eschholz, Sarah; Gertz, Marc

doi:10.1525/sp.1997.44.3.03x0119o

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“…Other studies had found substantially significant findings, which supported the resonance theory, that male viewers from low income backgrounds exposed to criminal situations would have greater feelings of resonance with people involved in arrests on television than other people (Chiricos, Padgett, & Gertz, 2000;Doob & Macdonald, 1979;Gerbner, Gross, Morgan, & Signorielli, 1980). Finally, the affinity thesis had been supported by evidence that individuals that viewed a preponderance of characters with similar demographic characteristics, that were victimized on television, subsequently would be more likely to fear being victims of criminal behavior themselves (Chiricos, Eschholz, & Gertz, 1997;Gerbner, Gross, Jackson-Beeck, JeffriesFox, & Signorielli, 1978).…”

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Public perceptions of police misconduct and discrimination: Examining the impact of media consumption

Dowler

Zawilski

2007

Journal of Criminal Justice

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Public perceptions of police misconduct and discrimination: Examining the impact of media consumption

Dowler

Zawilski

2007

Journal of Criminal Justice

151

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“…Further, fear of and perceived vulnerability to crime has been found to be influenced by media coverage of crime. [54][55][56][57][58][59][60] Thus, media coverage of homicide but less often robbery and assault may result in a greater awareness of and perceived vulnerability to area homicide compared to those other crimes and partly explain our finding that only homicide was associated with later stage at diagnosis. Unfortunately, we are unable to test these ideas with our data.…”

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Characteristics of Mammography Facility Locations and Stage of Breast Cancer at Diagnosis in Chicago

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In the United States, despite substantial investment in public health initiatives to promote early detection of breast cancer through screening mammography, the proportion of female breast cancers that have advanced beyond the localized stage by the time of diagnosis remains high. Our objective in this exploratory study was to investigate whether stage of breast cancer at diagnosis among Chicago residents is associated with characteristics of the neighborhoods in which proximate mammography facilities are located. Those characteristics may influence likelihood of utilizing the service routinely and partly explain differences in stage at diagnosis. We used a retrospective cohort design and combined 3 years of data from the Illinois State Cancer Registry (ISCR) with information on locations of mammography facilities, public transportation service, crime, and area demographic and economic characteristics. Using a Geographic Information System (GIS), we identified the five facilities located nearest to each case's residence. Estimates of the association between characteristics of mammography facility locations and breast cancer stage at diagnosis were obtained using the partial proportional odds regression model. We found that the number of homicides in areas in which the nearest mammography facilities were located was associated with increased odds of later stage diagnosis. This effect was independent of age, race, and residential area education and income. We found no effect on stage of distance, public transportation service, or measures of neighborhood social similarity. The "spatial dynamics" of health may involve geographies beyond the immediate neighborhood. The results of our study suggest that areas in which the nearest mammography facilities are located may be one such geography. We hope that this study will spark research interest in the impact of health service locations on utilization.

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“…Similarly, research has demonstrated that greater television viewing and newspaper readership at the individual level are associated with increased concern about drugs (Nielsen and Bonn 2008). Furthermore, studies generally support a conclusion that increased exposure to televised images of crime at the individual level predicts greater fear of crime (e.g., Chiricos et al 1997;Chiricos et al 2000), although more recent research suggests that neighborhood context, program type, and audience traits may mediate the TV-fear relationship (Eschholz et al 2003). Unfortunately, individual level measures of media usage were not available from Gallup, so this study constitutes a macro-level analysis of media effects and public opinion.…”

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How an Elite-Engineered Moral Panic Led to the U.S. War on Iraq

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2010

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Critics argue that the G.W. Bush administration deliberately misled the U.S. public about an Iraqi threat after 9/11 but empirical evidence that presidential deception influenced public support for war has been lacking. An examination of presidential rhetoric concerning Iraq in the U.S. media revealed that it changed in tone after 9/11, consistent with moral panic processes. Logistic regression analysis of public opinion leading up to the war revealed that shifts in support for invasion directly mirrored presidential rhetoric. The findings of this study suggest that the Bush administration engineered a moral panic over Iraq with the support of the media.

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Crime, News and Fear of Crime: Toward an Identification of Audience Effects

Cited by 94 publications

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Public perceptions of police misconduct and discrimination: Examining the impact of media consumption

Public perceptions of police misconduct and discrimination: Examining the impact of media consumption

Characteristics of Mammography Facility Locations and Stage of Breast Cancer at Diagnosis in Chicago

How an Elite-Engineered Moral Panic Led to the U.S. War on Iraq

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