Patterns of criminal threat in television news coverage of ethnic minorities in Flanders (2003–2013).
Despite a strong cognitive association in the minds of native citizens between ethnic minority presence and crime, compelling evidence demonstrating a real-world relationship between crime and ethnic diversity is limited. This study adopts a media-based approach to contribute to the debate on the or...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 43; no. 5; pp. 809 - 830 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=121703304&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 121703304 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 1369183X 56F jtl: Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies issn: 1369183X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Apr2017 vid: 43 iid: 5 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 121703304 10.1080/1369183X.2016.1217152 ppf: 809 ppct: 21 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 1.3MB tig: atl: Patterns of criminal threat in television news coverage of ethnic minorities in Flanders (2003–2013). aug: au: Jacobs, Laura affil: Centre for Citizenship and Democracy, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium su: Minorities Criminal psychology Evidence Crime & the press Cognition Flanders sug: subj: Flanders Minorities Criminal psychology Evidence Crime & the press Cognition keyword: content analysis crime news Criminal threat ethnic minorities television ab: Despite a strong cognitive association in the minds of native citizens between ethnic minority presence and crime, compelling evidence demonstrating a real-world relationship between crime and ethnic diversity is limited. This study adopts a media-based approach to contribute to the debate on the origin of the perception of criminal threats. By means of a content analysis of 11 years of crime news (2003–2013) in Flanders (the northern, Dutch-speaking part of Belgium), portrayals of ethnic minority and majority perpetrators are systematically compared to assess whether ethnic minorities are portrayed in a significantly more threatening way. Moreover, building on ethnic hierarchy theories, comparisons are made between various outgroups. Findings demonstrate that ethnic minority perpetrators are depicted in a more threatening manner: they are more likely to be associated with violent, property, and gang-related crime. Additionally, they are more likely to be anonymised and to be associated with explicit manifestations of threat. Group differences exist, however, as the most distant outgroup (i.e. North Africans) is covered in a more threatening way than the other outgroups. Implications for intergroup relations are discussed. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd dt: @attributes: year: 2017 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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