Race and Crime in the News: Whites' Identification and Misidentification of Violent and Nonviolent Criminal Suspects

By Mary Beth Oliver, Dana Fonash. 2002

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Psychological Reactions to Crime News Portrayals of Black Criminals: Understanding the Moderating Roles of Prior News Viewing and Stereotype Endorsement (2006, background): “However, Johnson, Adams, Hall, and Ashburn (1997) and Oliver and Fonash (2002) did not find that stereotype endorsement influenced the priming effect of crime news.”
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).”
The Portrayal of Race and Crime on Television Network News (2003, background): “…of crime and race on local news reinforces the stereotype that people of color have a propensity towards violence and criminal behavior (Gilens, 1999; Gilliam & lyengar, 1998; Gilliam et al., 1996; Johnson, Adams, Hall, & Ashburn, 1997; Oliver & Fonash, 2002; Peffley, Shields, & Williams, 1996).”
Network News and Racial Beliefs: Exploring the Connection Between National Television News Exposure and Stereotypical Perceptions of African Americans (2008, background): “Second, this programming can activate crime stereotypes regarding African Americans that can be used in subsequent judgments (Dixon, 2006a, 2006b; Gilliam & Iyengar, 1998, 2000; Oliver & Fonash, 2002).”
The Influence of Exposure to Depictions of Race and Crime in TV News on Viewer's Social Judgments (2009, background): “(see Oliver & Fonash, 2002).”
The Face of Crime: Viewers' Memory of Race‐Related Facial Features of Individuals Pictured in the News (2004, background): “…content per se and the effects of such content on viewers, it is also important to examine how viewers’ responses to content can reflect existing stereotypes in ways that may ultimately serve to maintain or intensify racial prejudice (Oliver & Fonash, 2002; Peffley, Shields, & Williams, 1996).”
Skin tone, crime news, and social reality judgments: Priming the stereotype of the dark and dangerous black criminal. (2005, background): “Similarly, Oliver and Fonash (2002) found that participants were more likely to mistakenly recall that non-Black suspects featured in a newspaper story were Black.”
News Selection Patterns as a Function of Race: The Discerning Minority and the Indiscriminating Majority (2008, background): “…are especially relevant because concerns have been raised that prior research based on self-reports may have been impaired by biases to respond in socially desirable fashion when it comes to racial attitudes and minority portrayals in the media (e.g., Entman & Rojecki, 2000; Oliver & Fonash, 2002).”
Television Viewing, Racial Attitudes, and Policy Preferences: Exploring the Role of Social Identity and Intergroup Emotions in Influencing Support for Affirmative Action (2010, background): “Specifically, respondents were instructed to ‘‘Please look at each of the following adjectives to indicate how well they describe your feelings toward African-Americans (Latino-Americans or Caucasian-Americans) in general.”
Crime News and Racialized Beliefs: Understanding the Relationship Between Local News Viewing and Perceptions of African Americans and Crime (2008, background): “In addition, Black criminals are much more likely to be cognitively linked with violent rather than nonviolent criminal behavior (Dixon & Linz, 2000a; Entman & Rojecki, 2000; Johnson et al., 1997; Oliver & Fonash, 2002 ).”