The Racial and Ethnic Typification of Crime and The Criminal Typification of Race and Ethnicity in Local Television News

By Ted Chiricos, Sarah Eschholz. 2002

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Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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Media Consumption, Perceptions of Crime Risk and Fear of Crime: Examining Race/Ethnic Differences (2012, background): “Chiricos et al. (2000) found that that television news consumption increased fear among blacks and whites, especially those who lived in high-crime areas, but had no effect on Latinos.”
Black Racial Stereotypes and Victim Blaming: Implications for Media Coverage and Criminal Proceedings in Cases of Police Violence against Racial and Ethnic Minorities (2017, background): “Additionally, these findings suggest that when positive, Black counterstereotypic victim information is provided, Black shooters may be viewed as more at fault and more to blame than White shooters, which is in line with Black criminality stereotypes (e.g., Chiricos & Eschholz, 2002; Entman, 1992).”
Crime News and Racialized Beliefs: Understanding the Relationship Between Local News Viewing and Perceptions of African Americans and Crime (2008, background): “Scholars have documented this local television news distortion of race and crime in Chicago, Philadelphia, and Florida (Chiricos & Eschholz, 2002; Entman, 1992; Romer et al., 1998).”
White Perceptions of Whether African Americans and Hispanics are Prone to Violence and Support for the Death Penalty (2012, background): “, Barkan and Cohn 2005; Chiricos et al. 2004; Welch et al. 2011). Indeed, left unexamined, such research leaves the impression that prejudicial attitudes and the negative typifications of African Americans and Hispanics by Whites remain constant across time and that harboring such pejorative stereot”
Activating and Suppressing Hostile and Benevolent Racism: Evidence for Comparative Media Stereotyping (2007, unknown): “Not surprisingly, the majority of the scholarship on media stereotyping has focused on negative stereotypes such as criminality and violence (Chiricos & Eschholz, 2002; Dixon & Linz, 2002; Domke, 2001; Gilliam & Iyengar, 2000; Oliver & Fonash, 2002; Valentino, 1999).”
Punitive attitudes toward criminals (2009, background): “In Garland’s view, which is shared by many others (e.g. Surrette, 1992; Barak, 1994; Chiricos and Eschholz, 2002) television provides ‘selective coverage of factual crime stories’ and ‘unrealistic crime dramas’ which ‘tend to distort public perceptions of the problem’ (Garland, 2001: 158).”