Twice hurt: How newspaper coverage may reduce empathy and engender blame for female victims of crime

Sex Roles

Volumn 51, Issue 9-10, 2004, Pages 535-542

  Anastasio, Phyllis A ^a   Costa, Diana M ^b  

^a SAINT JOSEPH S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Empathy; Media; News; Victim blame; Victim gender

Indexed keywords

EID: 12744277423     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-004-5463-7     Document Type: Article

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