I read the news today, oh boy: The effect of crime news coverage on crime perception

Velásquez, Diego; Medina, Santiago Martínez; Yamada, Gustavo; Lavado, Pablo; Núñez-del-Prado, Miguel; Alatrista-Salas, Hugo; Morzán, Juandiego

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105111

Cited by 14 publications

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“…Peace missions may improve perceptions of safety by either reducing actual levels of violence or by signalling and deterring via highly visible activities such as community patrolling. Notably, research has shown that individuals' perceptions do not unambiguously match reported levels of crime (Velásquez et al 2020) or electoral fraud (Daxecker, Di Salvatore, and Ruggeri 2019), and other factors contribute to how these perceptions are formed. Similarly, perceived safety does not necessarily mirror actual violence, which suggests that households' perceptions may be decoupled from actual conflict-reducing effects of peacekeeping, especially if rising levels of nonconflict violence remains a source of insecurity (Di Salvatore 2019).…”

Section: Contributing To the Economy By Contributing To Securitymentioning

confidence: 99%

UN Peacekeeping and Households' Well‐Being in Civil Wars

Bove

Salvatore

Elia

2021

American J Political Sci

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Civil wars affect the economic conditions of households by disrupting economic transactions and harming their psychological well‐being. To restore basic conditions for local economic recovery in conflict‐torn regions, the international community has only a limited number of tools at its disposal. We ask whether UN peacekeeping is one instrument to mitigate the negative effect of conflict on households' economic well‐being. We argue that, by reducing violence and heightening perceptions of safety, UN missions (i) encourage labor provision and economic exchanges, and (ii) instill confidence by reducing the psychological impact of daily stressors. Combining high‐frequency household survey data and information on subnational deployment of UN peacekeepers in South Sudan, we show that peacekeepers' military presence improves security (observed and perceived), which in turn revitalizes local economies and households' subjective well‐being. These improvements ultimately boost households' consumption, partially countering the negative effect of ongoing civil wars by keeping local communities' economy afloat.

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Section: Contributing To the Economy By Contributing To Securitymentioning

confidence: 99%

UN Peacekeeping and Households' Well‐Being in Civil Wars

Bove

Salvatore

Elia

2021

American J Political Sci

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“…The dataset used to train Word2Vec was obtained exploiting the information extracted from a dump of Wikipedia, the main categories of Italian Google News and some anonymized chats between users and the customer care chatbot Laila. 3 The dataset (composed of 2.6 GB of raw text) includes 17,305,401 sentences and 421,829,960 words. M2 A Skip-Gram model trained from scratch on the crime news articles of our dataset for 30 epochs (win-dow_size=10, min_count=20, negative_sampling=20, embedding_dim=300).…”

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confidence: 99%

Using Word Embeddings for Italian Crime News Categorization

Bonisoli

Rollo

2021

Annals of Computer Science and Information Systems

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Several studies have shown that the use of embeddings improves outcomes in many Natural Language Processing (NLP) activities, including text categorization. This paper focuses on how word embeddings can be used on newspaper articles related to crimes. The scope is the categorization of the news articles based on the type of crime they report. We compare different Word2Vec models and methods to obtain word embeddings. Then, we exploit both supervised and unsupervised Machine Learning categorization algorithms. Experiments were conducted on an Italian dataset of 15,361 crime news articles showing very promising results.

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“…A man of good character. A significant number of examined articles established the perpetrator as a "man of good character" by describing his current or former position within the community, future career potential or aspirations, or positive role within his family, thus eliciting public sympathy for his situation (Tonkin, 2017). In her study of the media and men's violence against women, Fixed It, Gilmore (2019, pp.…”

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Perpetration, Victimhood, and Blame: Australian Newspaper Representations of Domestic Violence, 2000–2020

Karageorgos

Boyle

Pender

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Violence Against Women

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Newspaper media plays a significant role in forming a public understanding of domestic violence. This article analyses 554 articles from 24 newspapers across Australian states and territories published between 2000 and 2020 that describe specific instances of domestic violence. It examines whether such violence is framed as a systemic issue or as a collection of individual events, as well as how such representations of perpetrators and victims displace both “blame” and “victimhood.” Although positive aspects of reporting can be observed, the tendency within newspaper articles to blur distinctions between perpetrators and victims distorts the true scale of domestic violence in Australia.

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I read the news today, oh boy: The effect of crime news coverage on crime perception

Cited by 14 publications

References 52 publications

UN Peacekeeping and Households' Well‐Being in Civil Wars

UN Peacekeeping and Households' Well‐Being in Civil Wars

Using Word Embeddings for Italian Crime News Categorization

Perpetration, Victimhood, and Blame: Australian Newspaper Representations of Domestic Violence, 2000–2020

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