Setting the Public Fear Agenda: A Longitudinal Analysis of Network TV Crime Reporting, Public Perceptions of Crime, and FBI Crime Statistics

By D. Lowry, Tarn Ching Josephine Nio, D. Leitner. 2003

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Subfields: Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Priming, Performance, and the Dynamics of Political Trust (2008, background): “Second, perceptions of crime and the actual incidence of crime are often not correlated (Lowry et al. 2003), which means that objective measures of crime would not capture how the public perceives the problem.”
• Crime Cultivation: Comparisons Across Media Genres and Channels (2007, background): “A number of cultivation studies have tested nonfictional genres and reported correlations between news exposure and concern about crime ( Atkin, Jeffres, & Neuendorf, 1997 ; Gross & Aday, 2003 ; Jaehing, Weaver, & Fico, 1981 ; Lowry, Nio, & Leitner, 2003 ; Stroman & Seltzer, 1985 ), and a few ha”