Police use of force and its video coverage: An experimental study of the impact of media source and content on public perceptions

Miethe, Terance D.; Venger, Olesya; Lieberman, Joel D.

doi:10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2018.10.006

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“…First, we identified respondents’ sources of views on police to include the news, social media, possessing cultural awareness, and from family members and relatives. While the news media play an important role in the transmission of vicarious trauma and evaluations of police and policing practices (see Miethe et al, 2019), we identified male family members and relatives as the most frequently cited source of vicarious trauma.…”

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A Neglected Problem: Understanding the Effects of Personal and Vicarious Trauma on African Americans’ Attitudes Toward the Police

Pryce

Olaghere

Brown

et al. 2021

Criminal Justice and Behavior

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The relationship between the police and African Americans has had a contentious history for decades. To explore this topic further, we interviewed 77 African Americans in the City of Durham, NC, about the declining relationship between their community and the police. We find that African Americans’ perceptions of the police are nuanced and complicated by personal experiences, vicarious experiences of relatives and friends, and news from social media and television regarding policing practices and treatment, including police harassment and/or brutality. We characterize these direct and vicarious experiences as the transmission of trauma. Even for the proportion of African Americans who had positive perceptions and interactions with the police, their views of the police seemed to be further complicated by broader concerns of discriminatory treatment. We proffer solutions to improve the relationship between the police and African Americans. The implications of our findings for future research are also discussed.

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A Neglected Problem: Understanding the Effects of Personal and Vicarious Trauma on African Americans’ Attitudes Toward the Police

Pryce

Olaghere

Brown

et al. 2021

Criminal Justice and Behavior

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“…It could be argued, on its face, that some of the generalizations are in line with the larger statistics across the nation. For example, most serial killers are White males, so it may make sense heuristically and cognitively that this is what comes to people's minds when they are asked about it (Miethe, Venger, & Lieberman, 2019;Walsh, 2005). It is also important to keep in mind the specific demographic characteristics of the sample as this would certainly have an impact on the responses provided for each of the prompts.…”

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“…Research on similar topics has consistently found that people from all backgrounds tend to have relatively fixed beliefs about what kinds of people are the most likely to be involve in certain kinds of criminal offending. This widely holds for people from all racial and ethnic backgrounds, age cohorts, social classes, and professions (Fox & Lane, 2010;Funk & Todorov, 2013;Miethe, Venger, & Lieberman, 2019). Attitudes and beliefs about criminal offending types are largely shaped through learning and conditioning, the immediate social environment, the media, and personal experiences (Mancini, Mears, Stewart, Beaver, & Pickett, 2015;Markowitz, 2011;Walsh, 2005).…”

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“…Researchers have found that age, gender, race, social disorder, and education all play a role in the interpretation of being victimized and criminal offending (Bolger & Bolger, 2019; Dotsch, Wigboldus, & Knippenberg, 2011). The media play a major role in shaping these perceptions and influencing public attitudes concerning heuristics and thinking about crime and victimization (Miethe, Venger, & Lieberman, 2019;Walsh, 2005). Fox and Lane (2010) demonstrated this in their research with 30 prosecutors in the state of Florida whereby they collected information concerning their beliefs and attitudes about criminal defendants.…”

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Expressed Beliefs Concerning the Demographic Characteristics of Various Types of Criminal Offenders

Berger¹

2020

IJSR

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People often think of certain demographic characteristics when they are asked about particular kinds of criminal offenders and behaviors. Having set beliefs and attitudes about particular kinds of social groups often comes with negative labeling, stereotyping, and unfavorable treatment. This study examined what came into the minds of 573 people when they were asked about specific kinds of criminal groups or offenders. The findings from this study confirmed that there are clear patterns in the ways that people tend to think when they are asked about the demographics of criminal offenders. Research participants from all demographic backgrounds generally displayed common thoughts and beliefs about which types of people fall into specific offending categories, such as serial killers being White, gang members being Hispanic, prison inmates being Black, drug addicts being White, and outlaw bikers being White. Across all categories it was found that most people think of males when it comes to criminal offending. Other clear patterns revealed included thoughts about offenders typically being young and from the lower class; although there were some deviations from this for certain types of offenders and groups (e.g., outlaw bikers). The findings from this study should be useful across a number of fields such as psychology, criminology, sociology, social work, and corrections.

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“…In an increasingly web-based, low-response-rate world, the use of online surveying has dramatically increased in criminological research (Thompson & Pickett, 2019). Some studies have used unmatched opt-in samples, such as Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk), which allow nearly any of a platform’s users to answer the online questionnaire (e.g., Barnum & Solomon, 2019; Herman & Pogarksy, 2020; Miethe et al, 2019; Pickett et al, 2013; Seigfried-Spellar et al, 2017). These are convenience samples (Landers & Behrend, 2015), but they provide a relatively inexpensive method of exploring many theories and ideas and have the potential to yield a diverse, nationwide group of respondents (Weinberg et al, 2014).…”

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Advantages of Matched Over Unmatched Opt-in Samples for Studying Criminal Justice Attitudes: A Research Note

Graham

Pickett

Cullen

2020

Crime & Delinquency

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Despite the growing popularity of online opt-in samples in criminology, recent work shows that resultant findings often do not generalize. Not all opt-in samples are alike, however, and matching may improve data quality. Replicating and extending prior work, we compare the generalizability of relational inferences from unmatched and matched opt-in samples. Estimating identical models for four criminal justice outcomes, we compare multivariate regression results from national matched (YouGov) and unmatched (MTurk) opt-in samples to those from the General Social Survey (GSS). YouGov coefficients are almost always in the same direction as GSS coefficients, especially when statistically significant, and are mostly of a similar magnitude; less than 10% of the YouGov and GSS coefficients differ significantly. By contrast, MTurk coefficients are more likely to be in the wrong direction, more likely to be much larger or smaller, and are about three times as likely to differ significantly from GSS coefficients. Matched opt-in samples provide a relatively inexpensive data source for criminal justice researchers, compared to probability samples, and also appear to carry a smaller generalizability penalty than unmatched samples. Our study suggests relational inferences from matched opt-in samples are more likely to generalize than those from unmatched samples.

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Police use of force and its video coverage: An experimental study of the impact of media source and content on public perceptions

Cited by 30 publications

References 47 publications

A Neglected Problem: Understanding the Effects of Personal and Vicarious Trauma on African Americans’ Attitudes Toward the Police

A Neglected Problem: Understanding the Effects of Personal and Vicarious Trauma on African Americans’ Attitudes Toward the Police

Expressed Beliefs Concerning the Demographic Characteristics of Various Types of Criminal Offenders

Advantages of Matched Over Unmatched Opt-in Samples for Studying Criminal Justice Attitudes: A Research Note

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