Does watching Court TV ‘cultivate’ people's perceptions of crime?

Gazette

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 227-238

  Valkenburg, Patti M ^a   Patiwael, Marquérite ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Court TV; cultivation; fear of crime; perceptions of crime; television; television viewing motives

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005680565     PISSN: 00165492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0016549298060003002     Document Type: Article

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