SOC 3750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Csi Effect, Morality Play, Gunshot Residue

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Simplification: min parts or themes reduced to too complicated lose audience. Risk: more risk more newsworthy, focus on b/w strangers, your risk of being a random victim of a crime, highlight dangerous geo locations. Sex: sells crime stories, over emphasize crimes of a sexual nature, children not often discussed. Children: more likely covered if murdered than sexually assaulted. Police org & news: frame stories for the public, don"t talk to media, certain officers trained to talk to. Asymmetrical relationship: reporter always in inferior position. Police (as sources: ppl believe them, credible source. Newspaper beats: have journalists at the dept. Week 6 lec 10 thurs feb 14: scanner, spokesperson. Incidents: corruption and police misconduct most often. Public attitudes: race: blacks more likely to believe use of excessive force, gender: no diff on belief/reports of police conduct, age: small impact, teens least satisfied w police. News: adults and juvenile offenders, location, victims. Construction of crime: seems to happen more than actually does.

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