SOC 3750 Study Guide - Final Guide: Police Misconduct, Mollen Commission, Knapp Commission
2 Feb 2016
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The print media as the primary source of crime news and hours of television watching is not significantly related to perceived police effectiveness. Limitations: we do not know what type of crime dramas the respondents are viewing, a number of different programs that may or may not address criminal justice issues and address them in substantially different ways. We find that perception of police effectiveness is not related to media consumption, which supports the limited effects model of media consumption. The mass media reinforce existing attitudes or opinions, and audience members are attracted to messages that are favorable to their predispositions or preexisting attitudes. , we find that respondents who report a high number of problems in their neighborhood are more likely to give negative evaluations of police effectiveness. In this study we find that african americans are more likely to give poor ratings of police effectiveness.
