Fear, TV news, and the reality of crime

Criminology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 755-786

  Chiricos, Ted ^a   Padgett, Kathy ^a   Gertz, Marc ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005749896     PISSN: 00111384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2000.tb00905.x     Document Type: Article

References (64)

1. American Association for Public Opinion Research 1998 Standard Definitions: Final Dispositions of Case Codes and Outcome Rates for RDD Telephone Surveys and In-Person Household Surveys. Ann Arbor, Mich.: AAPOR.
2. Angotti, Joseph 1997 National survey finds crime dominates local TV news. Press release from University of Miami Office of Media and External Relations, May 6.
3. Bagdikian, Ben 1990 The Media Monopoly. Boston: Beacon Press.
4. Bankston, William B. and Carol Y. Thompson 1989 Carrying firearms for protection: A causal model. Sociological Inquiry 59:75-87.
5. Barzagan, Moshen 1994 The effects of health, environmental and socio-psychological variables on fear of crime and its consequences among urban black elderly individuals. International Journal of Aging and Human Development 38:99-115.
6. Bureau of Economic and Business Research 1997 Florida Statistical Abstract. Gainesville, Fla.: University of Florida.
7. Chiricos, Ted, Sarah Eschholz, and Marc Gertz 1997 Crime, news and fear of crime: Toward an identification of audience effects. Social Problems 44:342-357.
8. Chiricos, Ted, Sarah Eschholz, and Kathy Padgett 1998a News consumption and perceptions of crime: An assessment of media content and public opinion in Orlando, Florida. Tallahassee, Fla.: The Collins Center for Public Policy.
9. Chiricos, Ted, Rhonda Dobbs, Marc Gertz, and Ranee McEntire 1998b Fear of Crime in Florida and Related Perceptions-1997. Tallahassee, Fla.: Unpublished grant report.
10. Clemente, Frank and Michael Kleiman 1976 Fear of crime among the aged. Gerontologist 16:207-210.
11. Covington, Jeanette and Ralph B. Taylor 1991 Fear of crime in urban residential neighborhoods: Implications of between- and within-neighborhood sources for current models. The Sociological Quarterly 32:231-249.
12. Dahlgren, Peter 1988 What's the meaning of this?: Viewers plural sense-making of TV news. Media, Culture and Society. 10:285-301.
13. DeBecker, Gavin 1997 The Gift of Fear. Boston: Little Brown.
14. Doob, Anthony N. and Glenn E. Macdonald 1979 Television viewing and fear of victimization: Is the relationship causal? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 37:170-179.
15. Eschholz, Sarah 1997 The media and fear of crime: A survey of the research. Journal of Law and Public Policy 9:37-59. 1998 Television and fear of crime: The effect of context on audience perception. Tallahassee, Fla.: Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Florida State University.
16. Eschholz, Sarah 1997 The media and fear of crime: A survey of the research. Journal of Law and Public Policy 9:37-59. 1998 Television and fear of crime: The effect of context on audience perception. Tallahassee, Fla.: Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Florida State University.
17. Ferraro, Kenneth A. 1995 Fear of Crime: Interpreting Victimization Risk. Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press.
18. Ferraro, Kenneth A. and Randy LaGrange 1987 The measurement of fear of crime. Sociological Inquiry 57:70-101. 1992 Are older people afraid of crime? Reconsidering age differences in fear of victimization. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences 47:S233-S244.
19. Ferraro, Kenneth A. and Randy LaGrange 1987 The measurement of fear of crime. Sociological Inquiry 57:70-101. 1992 Are older people afraid of crime? Reconsidering age differences in fear of victimization. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences 47:S233-S244.
20. Fiske, John 1986 Television, polysemy and popularity. Critical Studies in Mass Communication 3:391-408.
21. Gerbner, George and Larry Gross. 1976 Living with television: The violence profile. Journal of Communication 26:173-199.
22. Gerbner, George, Larry Gross, Marilyn Jackson-Beeck, Suzanne Jeffries-Fox, and Nancy Signorielli 1978 Cultural indicators: Violence profile No. 9. Journal of Communication 28:176-207.
23. Gerbner, George, Larry Gross, Nancy Signorielli, and Michael Morgan 1980 Television violence, victimization, and power. Journal of Communication 23:705-716.
24. Gitlin, Todd 1979 Prime time ideology: The hegemonic process in television entertainment. Social Problems 26:251-266.
25. Graber, Doris A. 1980 Crime News and the Public. New York: Praeger.
26. Gunter, Barrie 1987 Television and the Fear of Crime. London: John Libbey
27. Hawkins, Robert P. and Suzanne Pingree 1981 Uniform messages and habitual viewing: Unnecessary assumptions in social reality effects. Human Communication Research 7:291-301.
28. Heath, Linda 1984 Impact of newspaper crime reports on fear of crime: Multimethodological investigation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 47:263-276.
29. Heath, Linda and Kevin Gilbert 1996 Mass media and fear of crime. American Behavioral Scientist 39:379-86.
30. Heath, Linda and John Petraitis 1987 Television viewing and fear of crime: Where is the mean world? Basic and Applied Social Psychology 8:97-123.
31. Hirsch, Paul M. 1981 On not learning from one's mistakes, a reanalysis of Gerbner et al.'s findings on cultivation analysis, Part II. Communication Research 8:3-37.
32. Jaycox, Victoria 1978 The elderly's fear of crime: Rational or irrational? Victimology 3:329-34.
33. Jensen, Klaus B. 1991 When is meaning? Communications theory, pragmatism and mass media reception. In James A. Anderson (ed.), Communications Yearbook/14. Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage.
34. Karmen, Andrew A. 1991 Victims of crime. In Joseph F. Sheley (ed.), Criminology: A Contemporary Handbook. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth.
35. Klite, Paul, Robert A. Bardwell, and Jason Salzman 1997 Baaad News: Local TV News in America. Denver, Colo.: Rocky Mountain Media Watch.
36. LaGrange, Randy, Kenneth F. Ferraro, and Michael Supanic 1992 Perceived risk and fear of crime: Role of social and physical incivilities. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 29:311-334.
37. Lavrakas, Paul J. 1987 Telephone Survey Methods. Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage.
38. Liska, Allen E. and William Baccaglini 1990 Feeling safe by comparison: Crime in the newspapers. Social Problems 37:360-374.
39. O'Keefe, Garrett J. 1984 Public views on crime: Television exposure and media credibility. In T. Bostrom, (ed.), Communication Yearbook 8. Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage.
40. O'Keefe, Garrett J. and Kathaleen Reid-Nash 1987 Crime news and real-world blues: The effects of the media on social reality. Communication Research 14:147-163.
41. Ortega, Suzanne L. and Jessie L. Myles 1987 Race and gender effects on the fear of crime: An interactive model with age. Criminology 25:133-152.
42. Parker, Kenneth D. 1988 Black-white differences in perceptions of fear of crime. Journal of Social Psychology 128:487-494.
43. Parker, Kenneth D., Barbara McMorris, Earl Smith, and Kamanduri Murty 1993 Fear of crime and the likelikhood of victimization: A bi-ethnic comparison. Journal of Social Psychology 133:723-732.
44. Parker, Kenneth D. and Melvin C. Ray 1990 Fear of crime: An assessment of related factors. Sociological Spectrum 10:29-40.
45. Paternoster, Raymond, Robert Brame, Paul Mazerolle, and Alex Piquero 1998 Using the correct statistical test for the equality of regression coefficients. Criminology 36:859-866.
46. Perkins, Douglas D. and Ralph B. Taylor 1996 Ecological assessments of community disorder: Their relationship to fear of crime and theoretical implications. American Journal of Community Psychology 24:63-107.
47. Potter, W. James 1986 Perceived reality and the cultivation hypothesis. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media 30:159-174.
48. Potter, W. James and Ik Chin Chang 1990 Television exposure measures and the cultivation hypothesis. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media 34:313-333.
49. Rountree, Pamela W. and Kenneth C. Land 1996 Perceived risk versus fear of crime: Empirical evidence of conceptually distinct reactions in survey data. Social Forces 74:1353-1376.
50. Rubin, Alan, Elizabeth M. Perse, and Donald S. Taylor 1988 A methodological examination of cultivation. Communication Research 15:107-134.
51. Schudson, Michael 1989 How culture works. Theory and Society 18:153-180.
52. Skogan, Wesley G. and Michael G. Maxfield 1981 Coping With Crime. Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage.
53. Slater, Dan and William Elliot 1982 Television's influence on social reality. Quarterly Journal of Speech 68:69-79.
54. Smith, Susan 1984 Crime in the news. British Journal of Criminology 24:289-295.
55. Sparks, Richard 1992 Television and the Drama of Crime: Moral Tales and the Place of Crime in Public Life. Buckingham: Open University Press.
56. Tamborini, Ron, DoIf Zillman, and Jennings Bryant 1984 Fear and victimization: Exposure to television and perceptions of crime and fear. In R. Bostrum (ed.), Communications Yearbook. Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage.
57. Thompson, Carol Y., William B. Bankston, and Roberta L. St. Pierre 1992 Parity and disparity among three measures of fear of crime: A research note. Deviant Behavior: An Interdisciplinary Journal 13:373-389.
58. Tyler, Tom R. 1984 Assessing the risk of crime victimization: The integration of personal victimization experience and socially transmitted information. Journal of Social Issues 40:27-38.
59. Warr, Mark 1984 Fear of victimization: Why are women and the elderly more afraid? Social Science Quarterly 65:681-702. 1990 Dangerous situations: Social context and fear of victimization. Social Forces 68:891-907.
60. Warr, Mark 1984 Fear of victimization: Why are women and the elderly more afraid? Social Science Quarterly 65:681-702. 1990 Dangerous situations: Social context and fear of victimization. Social Forces 68:891-907.
61. Weaver, James and Jacob Wakshlag 1986 Perceived vulnerability to crime, criminal experience and television viewing. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media. 30:141-158.
62. Winerip, Michael 1998 Does local TV news have to be so bad? The New York Times Magazine 11 January: 30-63.
63. Young, Jock 1987 The tasks facing a realist criminology. Contemporary Crises 11:337-356.
64. Zillman, DoIf 1979 Hostility and aggression. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum.