A comparative analysis of crime coverage in newspapers in the United States and other countries from 1960–1989: A review of the literature

Marsh, Harry L.

doi:10.1016/0047-2352(91)90083-8

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“…EWCs do not often make the news as they tend to be regarded as less important. A low media interest in covering EWCs leads to public misunderstanding and ignorance of such crimes (Jarell, 2009;Marsh, 1991). Nevertheless, Sweden has seen a rise in both numbers of reports and articles, suggesting that both parties may be influencing each other into more conscious reporting.…”

Section: Environmental and Wildlife Crimes: Theory And Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Some cases may even be covered up or minimally reported in order to defend the local economy. When crimes show up in the media, they tend to give a distorted or partial picture of reality (Burns, 2009;Burns & Orrick, 2002;Jarell, 2007Jarell, , 2009Lynch, Stretesky & Hammond, 2000;Marsh 1991). …”

Section: Environmental and Wildlife Crimes: Theory And Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Theory and case studies from North America and the United Kingdom dominate the international literature on crimes against nature and wildlife (e.g., Adler and Lord, 1991;Marsh, 1991;Pendleton, 1997;White, 2008). Sweden and other Scandinavian countries have a long tradition of dealing with environmental issues and being role models for other countries worldwide, which makes them an interesting case from an international perspective.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Environmental and Wildlife Crime in Sweden

Ceccato¹,

Uittenbogaard²

2014

International Journal of Rural Criminology

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This article discusses the nature of environmental and wildlife crime (EWC) in Sweden. A review of the international literature helps to frame the Swedish case study. The novelty of this study lies in using 11 years of police records as well as newspaper articles (Media archives) as a basis for analysis. Geographical Information System (GIS) supports the spatial analysis of EWC at municipal and coordinate levels. Since most EWCs take place outside large urban areas, this study looks closely at the cases of EWC in the rural county of Västernorrland. Findings show an increase in both EWCs recorded by the police and covered by the media in the last decade. EWC-geography varies by crime type: rural areas are in general more prone to unlawful handling of chemicals and to nature and wildlife crimes than are urban areas, where dumping and other minor EWCs are more common. Detection of EWCs is highly dependent on people's routine activities and accessibility. Drawing upon the Swedish evidence, the article closes with suggestions for improvements in research on environmental and wildlife crimes.

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Section: Environmental and Wildlife Crimes: Theory And Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Environmental and Wildlife Crimes: Theory And Hypothesesmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Environmental and Wildlife Crime in Sweden

Ceccato¹,

Uittenbogaard²

2014

International Journal of Rural Criminology

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“…Homicide tops this hierarchy; a story is more newsworthy if the crimes are committed by one person (Marsh, 1991;Mott, 1999;Pritchard & Hughes, 1997). In other words, serial killers, or the possibility of a serial killer out there, demand more attention than the single case of domestic violence that results in the murder of a woman and her children (Mott, 1999).…”

Section: Mediations Of Racialized and Gendered Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

Missing and Murdered Women: Reproducing Marginality in News Discourse

Jiwani¹,

Young

2006

Canadian Journal of Communication

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While current mainstream media stories oscillate between Canadian troops in Afghanistan attempting to restore safety and democracy and the imminent threat of a war on terror on domestic soil, a sorely neglected story concerns the continued war on women in Canada. In this paper, we look at one site of this war-the case of missing and murdered women in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Employing a frame analysis, we analyze 128 articles from The Vancouver Sun published between 2001 and 2006. We argue that prevailing and historically entrenched stereotypes about women, Aboriginality, and sex-trade work continue to demarcate the boundaries of 'respectability' and degeneracy, interlocking in ways that situate these women's lives, even after death, in the margins.Résumé : Les reportages qui font la une présentent soit les troupes canadiennes postées en Afghanistan tentant de rétablir la sécurité et la décromatie, soit la menace imminente d'une guerre contre la terreur en sol domestique. Il est pourtant une histoire délibérément occultée : la guerre sans fin que subissent les femmes au Canada. Cet article explore une facette de cette guerre-celle des femmes disparues et assassinées du When the terrain is sexual violence, racism and sexism interlock in particularly nasty ways. These two systems operate through each other so that sexual violence, as well as women's narratives of resistance to sexual violence, cannot be understood outside of colonialism and today's ongoing racism and genocide. When women from marginalized communities speak out about sexual violence, we are naming something infinitely broader than what men do to women within our communities, an interlocking analysis that has most often been articulated by Aboriginal women.-Sherene Razack, Looking White People in the Eye (1998a, p. 59) A recent news article in The Vancouver Sun announced that one of Vancouver's "missing" women had been found (Culbert, 2006). That brought the count down to 67 women who have disappeared from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Over the past 30 years, approximately 100 women in British Columbia alone have gone missing. In the Hazelton-Houston-Burns Lake corridor-or the "Highway of Tears," as the Aboriginal women of the region have called it-police say nine young women and girls have disappeared, while a citizens' report suggests that the number may be as high as 30 (Hume, 2006). If we count women missing across the country, the numbers skyrocket. Yet, in comparison with the events "out there" dominating the international scene and their links here in the homeland, little attention has been paid to the phenomenon of missing women in the mainstream media.Our location informing this paper draws from our position as feminist researchers investigating the terrain of racialized and sexualized violence and its mediations. Our point of departure is that violence against women constitutes a gendered war that remains peripheral to the public sphere constructed by the mass media. In using the war metaphor, we borrow from anti-violence ...

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“…Newspapers have traditionally received the most attention in prior research on the social construction of crime by the news media (e.g., Graber, 1980;Marsh 1991;Mawby & Brown;Reiner et al, 2000;Reiner, 2002). Conventional wisdom on modern information accumulation tells us that internet-based sources of news are currently the most popular news sources.…”

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social construction of neighborhood crime by the news media

Baranauskas¹

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A comparative analysis of crime coverage in newspapers in the United States and other countries from 1960–1989: A review of the literature

Cited by 100 publications

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Environmental and Wildlife Crime in Sweden

Environmental and Wildlife Crime in Sweden

Missing and Murdered Women: Reproducing Marginality in News Discourse

social construction of neighborhood crime by the news media

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