How Prime Time Crime Evolved on TV, 1976–1981

Public perceptions of police misconduct and discrimination: Examining the impact of media consumption

“…For instance, in crime dramas, crimes were solved and suspects were successfully arrested (Carlson, 1985;Dominick, 1973;Doyle, 2003;Estep & MacDonald, 1984;Kooistra, Mahoney, & Westervelt, 1998;Zillman & Wakshlag, 1985). Similarly, television news exaggerated the proportion of arrests, which portrayed the police as more effective than official statistics exhibited (Marsh, 1991;Roshier, 1973;Sacco & Fair, 1988;Skogan & Maxfield, 1981).…”

Values of German Media Users

“…Johnson & Christ, 1988;Licata & Biswas, 1993). Following Gerbner's cultivation approach, many scholars studied the violation of societal values regarding sex and violence, especially on television, thus deriving implicit patterns of TV values (e.g., Estep & Macdonald, 1983;Gerbner & Gross, 1976;Gerbner et al, 1977;Greenberg & D'Alessio, 1985;Kunkel et al, 1999;Lowry & Shidler, 1993;Lowry & Towles, 1989;O'Kelly, 1974). Beaudoin and Thorson (2001) examined values that media made explicit as cultural indicators.…”

Prime-Time Crime: Presentations of Crime and Its Participants on Popular Television Justice Programs

“…Indeed, both news and entertainment television have included crime as a prominent feature over the past several decades (Dominick, 1978; Garofalo, 1981 ;Estep and MacDonald, 1984; Lichter, Lichter and Rothman, 1994). Estep and MacDonald (1984) note, for example, that historically prime-time television has devoted at least onethird of its time to crime.…”

“…Indeed, both news and entertainment television have included crime as a prominent feature over the past several decades (Dominick, 1978; Garofalo, 1981 ;Estep and MacDonald, 1984; Lichter, Lichter and Rothman, 1994). Estep and MacDonald (1984) note, for example, that historically prime-time television has devoted at least onethird of its time to crime. Crime and law enforcement programs have virtually littered televison programming for the past four decades and have included such diverse programs as Baretta, Hawaii Five-0, The Rocword Files, Starsky thirds of the criminal offenses depicted were killings or attempted killings.…”