News media framing of correctional officers: “Corrections is so Negative, we don’t get any Good Recognition”

IF 1.7 3区社会学 Q2 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

Crime Media Culture Pub Date : 2023-04-12 DOI:10.1177/17416590231168337

R. Ricciardelli, Mark C. J. Stoddart, Heather Austin

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Abstract

The work of correctional officers (COs) is essential yet remains largely hidden from society. As such, media framing plays an important role in shaping public perceptions of COs and their work. COs encounter adverse events over the course of their occupational work and are legally—and sometimes publicly—held accountable. In the current study, we first present a text-based frame analysis of local news media published between January 2019 and December 2019 to see how COs are represented in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador (NL). We then draw from 25 interviews with COs employed at Her [His] Majesty’s Penitentiary in St. John’s, NL, to learn how the officers interpret the media’s framing of their occupation. Grounded emergent theme analyses of interview data reveal officers share concerns about what they perceived as unfair negative media framing. COs more often feel like objects of media framing with little agency to shape media narratives about their work. COs’ lay theories about their representation in mainstream news media illuminate a misalignment between media framing and their own work experience. This misalignment is a source of anxiety and additional job strain.

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新闻媒体对惩教人员的诬陷：“惩教是如此消极，我们没有得到任何良好的认可”

惩教人员的工作至关重要，但在很大程度上仍不为社会所知。因此，媒体框架在塑造公众对组织及其工作的看法方面发挥着重要作用。首席执行官在其职业工作过程中遇到不良事件，并在法律上(有时是公众上)承担责任。在本研究中，我们首先对2019年1月至2019年12月期间发布的当地新闻媒体进行了基于文本的框架分析，以了解co在纽芬兰和拉布拉多省(NL)的表现方式。然后，我们对新泽西州圣约翰女王陛下监狱的25名狱警进行了采访，以了解这些狱警如何解读媒体对他们职业的描述。对采访数据的基础紧急主题分析显示，警官们对他们所认为的不公平的负面媒体框架感到担忧。COs更经常感觉自己是媒体框架的对象，没有什么机构来塑造媒体对他们工作的叙述。COs关于他们在主流新闻媒体中的表现的外行理论说明了媒体框架与他们自己的工作经验之间的不一致。这种错位是焦虑和额外工作压力的来源。

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Crime Media Culture Multiple-

CiteScore

3.80

自引率

11.10%

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期刊介绍： Crime, Media, Culture is a fully peer reviewed, international journal providing the primary vehicle for exchange between scholars who are working at the intersections of criminological and cultural inquiry. It promotes a broad cross-disciplinary understanding of the relationship between crime, criminal justice, media and culture. The journal invites papers in three broad substantive areas: * The relationship between crime, criminal justice and media forms * The relationship between criminal justice and cultural dynamics * The intersections of crime, criminal justice, media forms and cultural dynamics