The Usual Suspects: Offender Origin, Media Reporting and Natives’ Attitudes Towards Immigration.

IF 3.8 2区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Economic Journal Pub Date : 2023-08-07 DOI:10.1093/ej/uead059

Sekou Keita, Thomas Renault, Jérôme Valette

引用次数: 3

Abstract

Abstract This paper analyses whether the systematic disclosure of criminals’ origins in the press affects natives’ attitudes towards immigration. It takes advantage of the unilateral change in reporting policy announced by the German newspaper Sächsische Zeitung in July 2016. Combining individual-level panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 2014 to 2018 with 402,819 crime-related articles in German newspapers and those newspapers’ market shares, we find that systematically mentioning the origins of criminals increases the relative salience of natives’ criminality and reduces natives’ concerns about immigration, breaking the implicit link between immigration and crime.

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常见的嫌疑犯:罪犯来源、媒体报道和当地人对移民的态度。

摘要本文分析了媒体对罪犯来源的系统性披露是否会影响当地人对移民的态度。它利用了德国报纸Sächsische Zeitung在2016年7月单方面宣布的报道政策变化。结合2014 - 2018年德国社会经济研究小组的个人层面面板数据、德国报纸上402,819篇与犯罪相关的文章以及这些报纸的市场份额，我们发现，系统地提及犯罪来源增加了当地人犯罪的相对突出性，降低了当地人对移民的担忧，打破了移民与犯罪之间的隐性联系。

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Economic Journal ECONOMICS-

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6.60

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3.10%

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