SOC 3750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Media General, Media Consumption, Stranger Danger
6 Dec 2012
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Police effectiveness and media - general findings (dowler) Police often over dramatized/ romanticized by fictional tv crime dramas: majority of crimes solved, suspects apprehended. Study reveals regular viewing of crime drama is not significant related to perceived police effectiveness. Print media as the primary sources of crime news/ hour of tv watching are not significantly related to police effectiveness. Find that perceptions of police effectiveness not related to media consumption: supports limited effects model. Social factors mitigate effect that media portrayals have on viewer. Those with prior contact, there is a relationship between tv viewing/ perceived police effectiveness: those who watch more tv more likely to rate police ineffective. Those who report high number of problems in neighborhood more likely to give negative evaluations. Rave is not significantly related to perceived police effectiveness. Themes in quotes about crimes - primary and secondary definers, ideology of crime (welch et al)
