An interreality study of race and homicide news coverage in Baton Rouge, Louisiana

IF 1.7 3区社会学 Q2 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

Crime Media Culture Pub Date : 2022-05-13 DOI:10.1177/17416590221091851

T. Klein, Quincy Hodges

引用次数: 1

Abstract

Building on ethnic blame discourse, the social threat hypothesis, and media bias theories, this article makes a quantitative interreality comparison between homicide news coverage and homicide statistics in Baton Rouge, Louisiana—a city with one of the highest homicide rates in the United States of America. Findings reveal that Whites made up 2% of homicide victims in 2018 in Baton Rouge, but represented almost 40% of homicide victims in the news. Press releases issued by local law enforcement also overrepresented White homicide victims, as did follow-up stories. Findings on homicide suspects showed that Whites and Latinos were overrepresented, and Blacks were underrepresented.

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对路易斯安那州巴吞鲁日种族和凶杀新闻报道的跨现实研究

在种族指责话语、社会威胁假说和媒体偏见理论的基础上，本文对路易斯安那州巴吞鲁日的凶杀新闻报道和凶杀统计数据进行了定量的跨现实比较。巴吞鲁日是美国凶杀率最高的城市之一。调查结果显示，2018年巴吞鲁日的凶杀案受害者中，白人占2%，但在新闻报道的凶杀案受害者中，白人占近40%。当地执法部门发布的新闻稿也过多地代表了白人凶杀案的受害者，后续报道也是如此。对杀人案嫌疑人的调查结果显示，白人和拉丁裔的比例过高，而黑人的比例偏低。

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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