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FEAR, TV NEWS, AND THE REALITY OF CRIME*
Abstract
Data from a 1997 survey of 2, 250 Florida residents are used to assess whether and how the reality of crime influences the relationship between watching TV news and fear of crime. Local crime rates, victim experience, and perceived realism of crime news operationalize the reality of crime and are included in ordinary least squares (OLS) estimates of the TV news and fear of crime relationship. These measures of reality are also used as contexts for disaggregating the analysis. Local and national news are related to fear of crime independent of the effects of the reality of crime and other controls. Local news effects are stronger, especially for people who live in high crime places or have recent victim experience. This contextual pattern of findings is consistent with a conclusion that TV news is most influential when it resonates the experience or crime reality of respondents.
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- Authors
- CHIRICOS, T., PADGETT, K., & GERTZ, M.
- Venue
- Criminology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2000-08
- Volume
- 38
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 755-786
- ISSN
- 0011-1384 (ISSN-L)
- 1745-9125
- OpenAlex
- W2025889895
- Cited by
- 302
- References
- 46
- FWCI
- 25.16
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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