Crime creep: Urban and suburban crime on local tv news

Journal of Urban Affairs

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 535-563

  Yanich, Danilo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRIME; IMAGE; MEDIA ROLE; SUBURBAN AREA; URBAN AREA;

EID: 11844250514     PISSN: 07352166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0735-2166.2004.00214.x     Document Type: Article

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