Crime, news and fear of crime: Toward an identification of audience effects

Social Problems

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 342-357

  Chiricos, Ted ^a   Eschholz, Sarah ^a   Gertz, Marc ^a  

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DOI: 10.2307/3097181     Document Type: Article

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