From Imitation To Intimidation: A Note on the Curious and Changing Relationship between the Media, Crime and Fear of Crime

Ditton, Jason; Chadee, Derek; Farrall, Stephen; Gilchrist, Elizabeth; Bannister, Jon

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“…One of the most frequently considered causes of the fear of crime is media. However, the audience of different media channels is self-selective (Lane and Meeker, 2003) and messages often depend on the interpretation of the consumer (Heath and Gilbert, 1996;Ditton et al, 2004), also, crime reported on the media is not a reflection of reality, with media placing more emphasis on violent crime (Chadee and Ditton, 2005), therefore, the impact of the media on the fear of crime is unclear (Hollis et al, 2017).…”

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Fear of crime: the impact of different distributions of victimisation

Curiel

bishop

2018

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There is often a mismatch between levels of crime and the fear of becoming a victim of crime. It is not uncommon to find individuals who suffer little or no crime but yet who are still fearful of some future crime. Alternatively, a place or region might see an increase in crime over time while the fear of crime remains unchanged. Building on a model that previously considered the fear of crime as an opinion shared by simulated individuals, here the impact that different distributions of crime have on the fear experienced by the population is analysed. Simulating the dynamics of the fear of individuals, along with changes of the distribution of crime, leads to results which show that fear is sensitive to the distribution of crime and that there is a phase transition for high levels of concentration of crime. A policy may be oriented to reduce crime, so that the population effectively suffers less crime, but if the victimisation is displaced to other individuals, then the perception of insecurity may not decrease, with fear becoming more widespread.

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Fear of crime: the impact of different distributions of victimisation

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2018

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“…Altheide 1997; Lawrence and Mueller 2003). In this process, the most newsworthy stories are dramatic and sensational rather than mundane (Ditton et al 2004;Romer, Jamieson, and Aday 2003). In sum, "good news" is generally seen as less interesting than "bad news" (Aday 2010).…”

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Mediatization and the Disproportionate Attention to Negative News

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Do news media increasingly portray a distorted world image when reporting menace? The purpose of this study is to investigate how media attention for negative incidents evolves over time and how this relates to real-world trends and public responses. A longitudinal content analysis of media coverage of aviation incidents is used to provide a systematic investigation into the trends of media attention related to real-world data. Results show that while the total number of aviation incidents declined across time, relative media attention increased. Time series analysis revealed that media attention for these negative incidents was negatively associated with shifts in public responses-i.e. air travel behavior-whereas real-world statistics on aviation incidents did not seem to explain variation in public behavior. Moreover, when exploring the variation in the coverage of media attention, increasing presence of mediatization facets was observed as a potential explanation for the over-time rise in disproportional attention to negative news. In conclusion, news media may have a blind spot for progression and a distorted media reality can be a predictor of public responses instead of reality itself. KEYWORDS mediatization; negative news; news media logics; public responses; time series analysis IntroductionNews media are often accused of creating a distorted reality (e.g. Kitzinger 1999). First, in their reportage, media are frequently skewed toward the negative side if it comes to selecting news items (Hester and Gibson 2003). The journalistic tendency to focus on negative news is repeatedly considered an outcome of routine selection procedures of those stories that are believed to garner the highest ratings (e.g. Altheide 1997; Lawrence and Mueller 2003). Second, infrequent and isolated incidents have become part of the daily-news reportage, turning these rare events into the common world image (Altheide 1997;Park et al. 2009). As news develops a life of its own, one can observe discrepancies between what actually happens in the world and how the media portray it. Consequently, this research is broadly concerned with the role of the news media in processes of social construction and amplification of low-probability highconsequence negative incidents.Journalism Studies, 2019 Vol. 20, No. 6, 783-803, https This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/ 4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.Scholars have argued that, as a consequence of increased commercial pressures on news media institutions, media's penchant for the negative and the exceptional has become more prominent over time (e.g. Farnsworth and Robert Lichter 2006;Semetko and Schoenbach 2003) Indeed, it has been argued that factors such as negativity have grown to become among t...

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“…Our second hypothesis was rejected, as media consumption did not predict the attitude towards body scanners. Ditton, Chadee, Farrall, Gilchrist, and Bannister (2004) not only conducted a quantitative measure, the authors also analyzed the data qualitatively and found that it is not the amount of media consumption that matters but it is how relevant people interpret the media content. This should be considered in future studies.…”

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Factors Predicting the Explicit and Implicit Attitude Towards Body Scanners

Laib

Wolkenstein

2016

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Many ethical concerns have been raised about the implementation of body scanners at airports. However, no study thus far has investigated which factors influence the attitudes of the general public towards body scanners. Thus, the current study aimed to find variables predicting the implicit and explicit attitudes towards body scanners. Different sociodemographic and personality variables have been taken into account. Explicit attitudes were assessed by a questionnaire and implicit attitudes were assessed by the Single Target Implicit Association Test. Women worried more about the effects of a body scan and requested more information than men. People with more knowledge about body scanners worried more about possible discrimination through body scanners. In trend, people more enthusiastic about technology had a more negative implicit attitude towards body scanners. Implicit and explicit attitudes did not correlate. The findings emphasize the importance of integrating different kinds of users in the design and development of security technologies to account for different opinions, needs and worries. Moreover, we suggest using knowledge that is gained in these kind of studies to train airport employees.

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From Imitation To Intimidation: A Note on the Curious and Changing Relationship between the Media, Crime and Fear of Crime

Cited by 84 publications

References 42 publications

Fear of crime: the impact of different distributions of victimisation

Fear of crime: the impact of different distributions of victimisation

Mediatization and the Disproportionate Attention to Negative News

Factors Predicting the Explicit and Implicit Attitude Towards Body Scanners

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