Crime, Crime News, and Crime Views

Sheley, Joseph F.; Ashkins, Cindy D.

doi:10.1086/268683

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“…이 뉴스 미디어의 환경 감시 기능은 환경오염 (Ader, 1995), 범죄 (Sheley & Ashkins, 1981), 경제 (Ju, 2008;Soroka, 2006) 등 특정 이슈의 언론 보도라는 틀 속에서 연 구가 진행되었다. 예를 들어, 에더 (Ader, 1995) Freimuth et al, 1984;Greenberg, Freimuth, & Bratic, 1979;Hoffman-Goetz & Friedman, 2005;Jensen, Moriarty, Hurley, & Stryker, 2010;Slater, Long, Bettinghaus, & Reineke, 2008) (Ju, 2008;Soroka, 2006), 환경오염 (Ader, 1995), 범죄 Health and Social Behavior,41, …”

Section: 언론 환경 감시 기능의 적절성이라는 차원에서의 접근 은 뉴스미디어가 원래 사회에 잠재된 위험 요인들에 대한 unclassified

The Representation of Cancer Risk by Korean Health Journalism: Comparing the Crude Rates of 10 Cancers to the Amount of Cancer News in the Three Major Newspapers(1990-2010)

Ju¹,

Jeong²,

You³

2013

Korean Journal of Health Education and Promotion

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Objectives: The public relies on the news media to understand health risks. To examine the surveillance function of Korean health journalism, this study compared the rank-order of the 10 most frequently diagnosed cancers with that of the 10 cancers most frequently covered by three major Korean newspapers. Methods: News stories published between 1999 and 2010 by the Chosun-Ilbo, Joong-Ang-Ilbo, and Dong-A-Ilbo were examined. Data on cancer incidence were collected using the epidemiological data published by a governmental public health institution. To compare the level of the crude rates and the amount of news coverage, rank-order correlation tests and regression analyses were employed. Results: A reduction in the rank-ordered correlation coefficient was observed despite an increase in the overall number of cancer news stories released. The significance of the correlation disappeared after 2006. The big difference of the rank order between the crude rate and the amount of news coverage was observed in the cancer of breast, uteri, thyroid, and gallbladder/biliary. Finally, the three newspapers did not follow the amount change in stomach, lung, liver, and uterine cervix cancer. The four cancers' rank orders of crude rate were lowering, signifying a reduction of the comparative dangerousness of the four cancers. Conclusions: The news media's customization of news content and the negative bias in journalism are suggested as possible influences on the news media's inaccurate representation of cancer risk..

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Section: 언론 환경 감시 기능의 적절성이라는 차원에서의 접근 은 뉴스미디어가 원래 사회에 잠재된 위험 요인들에 대한 unclassified

The Representation of Cancer Risk by Korean Health Journalism: Comparing the Crude Rates of 10 Cancers to the Amount of Cancer News in the Three Major Newspapers(1990-2010)

Ju¹,

Jeong²,

You³

2013

Korean Journal of Health Education and Promotion

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“…The disconnect between archaeologists' global and local assessments of organized criminal involvement in antiquities looting and trafficking may be a result of 31 Indeed, coverage of crime issues in the news is not congruent with official assessments of crime. On the disconnect between public perceptions of and realities of crime, and the role that the media plays in such discrepancies, see for example Kitzinger and Skidmore, 1995;Lowry et al 2003;Coleman and Thorson 2002;Chiricos et al 2000;Howitt 1998;Sheley and Ashkins 1981. the differential influences of mass media, direct and indirect experiences, and proximity of archaeologists to the issue.…”

Section: Media Influence On Archaeologists' Impressionsmentioning

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Organized criminal involvement in the illicit antiquities trade

Proulx

2010

Trends Organ Crim

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From the "glocal" perspective of a large sample of archaeologists conducting fieldwork throughout the world and working on the very sites of interest to looters, this paper explores the question whether and to what extent organized crime is involved in the theft and illicit export of archaeological resources. Two major findings are presented: first, archaeologists tend almost unanimously to consider that organized crime operates within the 'global' antiquities market, but when asked about their own personal experiences with looting on the sites where they work, many fewer report observations of organized crime; second, however, it is apparent that respondents' conceptions of "organized crime" involve media-driven, stereotypical representations of mafia-style structures. Therefore, although in their reporting of observed local activities they do not provide substantial survey evidence of the presence of organized crime so defined, they do report appreciable "organization" among those who have looted their sites-which, again, they have almost unanimously experienced. This paper considers the implications of such findings for both the definitional debate on organized crime and the academic analysis of the trade in looted antiquities.

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“…As Graber (1993) demonstrated, crime news, by one estimate, accounts for about 14% of local news coverage, and the lion's share of that coverage focuses on sensational events. Moreover, over time, the media's presentation of crime trends in both television and newspapers appeared to be unrelated to the actual trends in police crime statistics (Sheley & Ashkins, 1981). Newspaper crime reporting, nonetheless, was found to better approximate the true distribution of crime than television crime reporting when compared to official police statistics (Sheley & Ashkins, 1981).…”

Section: Local Crime News Market Size and Community Structurementioning

confidence: 97%

“…Attention is especially directed toward the news media's overrepresentation of violent crimes (e.g., Antunes & Hurley, 1977;Lipschultz & Hilt, 2002;Maguire, Sandage, & Weatherby, 1999;Roshier, 1973;Sheley & Ashkins, 1981). Many scholars have demonstrated that inaccurate media representations influence media consumers' perceptions and cognitions in terms of the micro-level cognitive psychological perspective.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Many scholars have demonstrated that inaccurate media representations influence media consumers' perceptions and cognitions in terms of the micro-level cognitive psychological perspective. For instance, crimes portrayed in the media have an influence on the public's perceptions of the social reality of crimes (Chiricos, Padgett, & Gertz, 2000;Sheley & Ashkins, 1981). In addition to research based on the cognitive psychological perspective, overrepresentation of violent crimes and crisis-oriented events in the news media has been studied in terms of macro-level analysis based on ideology, news values, market logic, and commercial considerations (e.g., Bennett, 2003;McQuail, 2000).…”

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The influence of community structure on crime news coverage: structural pluralism, ethnic diversity, and local crime news

Kim

Abisaid

2015

CommSoc

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This study examines patterns of local newspaper crime coverage in terms of the community structure model, which is derived from the research of Tichenor, Donohue, and Olien. A total of 32 metropolitan statistical areas and primary metropolitan statistical areas, classified into four different categories of community according to the structural characteristics of structural pluralism and ethnic diversity, were selected for inclusion in this study. Crime news reports from the major newspaper of each selected community were analyzed based on the types of crimes (violent crime vs. property crime). These data were then compared to FBI crime statistics. In terms of the results, ethnic diversity was found to be a more important factor than structural pluralism in explaining the high proportion of violent crime coverage and the lesser amount of reportage of property crimes, as well as the discrepancies between the newspaper crime reports and the FBI crime statistics.

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Crime, Crime News, and Crime Views

Cited by 128 publications

References 18 publications

The Representation of Cancer Risk by Korean Health Journalism: Comparing the Crude Rates of 10 Cancers to the Amount of Cancer News in the Three Major Newspapers(1990-2010)

The Representation of Cancer Risk by Korean Health Journalism: Comparing the Crude Rates of 10 Cancers to the Amount of Cancer News in the Three Major Newspapers(1990-2010)

Organized criminal involvement in the illicit antiquities trade

The influence of community structure on crime news coverage: structural pluralism, ethnic diversity, and local crime news

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