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| Author: | Romer, D. Jamieson, K.H. Aday, S. |
| Title: | Television News and the Cultivation of Fear of Crime |
| Journal: | Journal of Communication
2003 : MAR, VOL. 53:1, p. 88-104 |
| Index terms: | MEDIA COVERAGE CRIME EXPECTATIONS ATTITUDES |
| Freeterms: | Cultivation Theory Social-Comparison Hypothesis |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Police arrest records and annual victimization studies have indicated that violent crime declined throughout the 1990s in the U.S.A. The statistics are in contradiction with the public belief that violent crime is a widespread national problem in the U.S.A. Cultivation theory argues that prime-time television has a role in shaping the public´s views on crime. The authors investigated the matter using a related hypothesis: that fear of crime is in part a by-product of exposure to crime-saturated local television news. Results of a U.S. survey were analyzed. The results supported cultivation theory´s predicted effects of television on the public. |
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