2021
DOI: 10.1080/15614263.2021.2017932
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Police-related social media exposure and adolescents’ interest in becoming a police officer

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“…Research is necessary to understand why adolescents develop misconceptions, but it is likely due in part to the news sources they choose or the media they consume (Cross & Fine, 2021;Graziano & Gauthier, 2018;Moule, 2020).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Research is necessary to understand why adolescents develop misconceptions, but it is likely due in part to the news sources they choose or the media they consume (Cross & Fine, 2021;Graziano & Gauthier, 2018;Moule, 2020).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Adolescents are capable of evaluating social issues (Metzger et al, 2020), yet many White youth may be unaware of what “defund” actually means. Research is necessary to understand why adolescents develop misconceptions, but it is likely due in part to the news sources they choose or the media they consume (Cross & Fine, 2021; Graziano & Gauthier, 2018; Moule, 2020).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Additionally, there was precipitous media coverage of the police event and following protests (Curtis, 2022). Research demonstrates the relation between exposure to police-related media and police perceptions (see Cross & Fine, 2021). Therefore, it is possible that this vicarious exposure to Floyd’s murder and the protests that followed contributed to community members’ attitudes toward police.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…When police murdered George Floyd in the summer of 2020, many people were vicariously exposed to unjust police treatment (Buchanan et al, 2020; Curtis, 2022; Nguyen et al, 2021). Indeed, more valanced police encounters that vicariously expose many people to police brutality are often thought to have drastic influences on perceptions of police (Cross & Fine, 2021; Intravia et al, 2020). These high-profile police misconduct events are theorized to have pushed the nation into a legitimacy crisis, a phenomenon in which many people in the United States have diminished trust in the authority of the police and are less likely to believe that police have a right to exert legal power (Morrow et al, 2021; Nix & Wolfe, 2017), specifically within the year following the police-brutality event (Jones, 2021).…”
Section: The Present Studymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In their novel 2017 study, Todak found that prospective police applicants weigh levels of public distrust and scrutiny of police against the attractiveness of a career in policing (Todak, 2017). Similarly, Cross and Fine (2022) found that greater exposure to negative policing content on social media, led to more negative views of police legitimacy, which reduced the desirability of a policing career.…”
Section: Finding 4: Trust Building May Assist In Countering Conspirac...mentioning
confidence: 99%