News media consumption and attitudes about police: in search of theoretical orientation and advancement

Gauthier, Jane Florence; Graziano, Lisa M.

doi:10.1080/0735648x.2018.1472625

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“…The negative effect on trust could thus be stronger for frequent consumers of Internet news, because anti-police content is less likely in mainstream media than on the Internet. This idea is consistent with the central premise of cultivation theory that individuals adopt the worldviews to which they are most exposed by the media (Gauthier and Graziano, 2018). Research shows that fake news spreads faster through social media (Vosoughi et al, 2018).…”

Section: Theoretical Framework and Hypothesessupporting

confidence: 85%

“…Research into media effects on the public image of the police is limited by a lack of theoretical orientation and articulation of a causal link between event, media processing and an actual change in public attitudes (Gauthier and Graziano, 2018; Graziano, 2018). 1 By combining elaborations from various theoretical approaches, this study provides a rationale that explains the overall linkage as well as possible intensifications of the effect.…”

Section: Theoretical Framework and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Whereas procedural justice upholds the image of the ‘Silver Bullet to good policing’ (Roché and Roux, 2017), newer studies demonstrate that deterioration in attitudes toward the police might be better attributed to a more complex phenomenon. This more recent research takes media coverage of police actions into account (Gauthier and Graziano, 2018; Graziano, 2018; Graziano and Gauthier, 2018; Graziano et al, 2009; Hohl et al, 2012).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The 2017 French riots and trust in the police: A quasi-experimental approach

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2021

European Journal of Criminology

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On 2 February 2017, French police officers brutally abused a young black man, leading to the first wave of 2017 French riots. The present study exploits the coincidence that the focal event occurred during the survey period of the European Social Survey (ESS) 2016 (11 November 2016 – 11 March 2017) in France, thus providing the basis for a natural experiment on the effect of media reporting on police misconduct on trust in the police. Data are analysed by means of a regression discontinuity design (RDD) as well as more conventional regression analyses with heteroscedasticity robust standard errors. In line with procedural justice theory as well as institutional theory, the present study finds support for the notion that this special case of police misconduct did decrease trust in the police. In addition, people reporting a migrant background showed even less trust in the police after the event. Frequency of different media consumption does not appear to explain the deterioration of trust in the police after the event. The results of this study increase the internal and external validity of the assumption that trust in the police can be explained not only by personal experiences but also by the perceived unfair treatment of others. Results are robust to various placebo tests. There is some evidence that the effect seems to be short-lived, although the data basis is limited in this regard. Several fruitful approaches for future studies are discussed.

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Section: Theoretical Framework and Hypothesessupporting

confidence: 85%

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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The 2017 French riots and trust in the police: A quasi-experimental approach

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2021

European Journal of Criminology

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“…In recent years, there have been calls for enhanced government transparency and police accountability. Media stories have responded with reporting police events with a focus on police performance which in turn molds public perception (Choi et al., 2020; Deuchar et al., 2020; Gauthier & Graziano, 2018; Moule, 2020; Nix & Pickett, 2017) and the officers’ perception of the public’s support. This has resulted in the police becoming concerned about their safety and may lead to them desisting from pro-active job tasks.…”

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confidence: 99%

Being a Blue Blood: A Phenomenological Study on the Lived Experiences of Police Officers’ Children

2020

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There has been speculation by researchers regarding the potential fears, concerns, and difficulties experienced by children of police officers, such as fears about their parent being injured or killed while on duty, ridicule and bullying, or being personally assaulted. More disheartening are the increased potential stressors facing police officers’ children due to increased community hostility across the country over the last few years, particularly among the African American community, stemming from a series of police involved shootings of unarmed African American males. Yet, there remains scant research that has examined the lived experiences of police officers’ children. To address this gap in the policing literature, this study used semi-structured interviews of police officers children in a southern state using a phenomenological methodology to explore the lived experiences of being a child of a police officer. Findings and policy recommendations are discussed.

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“…Weitzer (2002), for example, show that newspaper and television coverage of police brutality against Rodney King and others by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) led to dramatic declines in trust and confidence lasting months or years. Consumption of news about police violence on the Internet, including through social media, can also lead to negative attitudes about the police (Gauthier and Graziano 2018; Intravia, Wolff, and Piquero 2018).…”

Section: Determinants Of Public Attitudes Toward the Policementioning

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Phantom Pains: The Effect of Police Killings of Black Americans on Black British Attitudes

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2021

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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What effect does black politics in the United States have on the attitudes of black citizens in other national contexts? Literature on the black diaspora and transnationalism has characterized cultural and political linkages between black communities in North America, the Caribbean, and Europe, especially during the mid-20th century. In this article, I exploit random timing in the administration of a public attitudes survey to demonstrate that such linkages persist and that the police killing of Eric Garner in 2014 negatively affected black Londoners’ attitudes toward the Metropolitan Police. Notably, I find the effect was largely concentrated among black Londoners: estimates of an effect on white and South Asian Londoners were small and largely insignificant. The evidence presented here demonstrates that racial violence in the United States can affect racial politics in other national contexts and helps frame the emergence of Black Lives Matter chapters and protests beyond the United States.

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News media consumption and attitudes about police: in search of theoretical orientation and advancement

Cited by 23 publications

References 68 publications

The 2017 French riots and trust in the police: A quasi-experimental approach

The 2017 French riots and trust in the police: A quasi-experimental approach

Being a Blue Blood: A Phenomenological Study on the Lived Experiences of Police Officers’ Children

Phantom Pains: The Effect of Police Killings of Black Americans on Black British Attitudes

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