TAILIEUCHUNG - TELEVISION NEWS AND THE CULTICATION OF FEAR OF CRIME

The idea of the role of various ICTs to communicate information was further developed in the follow-up research (R8347), in which respondents were asked to rank the importance of types of information pertinent to rural livelihoods. It can be seen from Table 7 and Table 8 that there is a great deal of similarity in the types of information regarded as most important in both countries. Note that priority information needs tend to relate to social matters. Table 7 goes on to show the proportions of the sample who regard particular channels as their principal means of communicating each type of information | Television News and the Cultivation of Fear of Crime By Daniel Romer Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Sean Aday Why has the public persisted in believing that violent crime is a widespread national problem in the . despite declining trends in crime and the fact that crime is concentrated in urban locations Cultivation theory suggests that widespread fear of crime is fueled in part by heavy exposure to violent dramatic programming on prime-time television. Here we explore a related hypothesis that fear of crime is in part a by-product of exposure to crime-saturated local television news. To test this as well as related and competing hypotheses we analyzed the results of a recent national survey of perceived risk a 5-year span of the General Social Survey 1990-1994 and the results of a recent survey of over 2 300 Philadelphia residents. The results indicate that across a wide spectrum of the population and independent of local crime rates viewing local television news is related to increased fear of and concern about crime. These results support cultivation theory s predicted effects of television on the public. Violent crime was among the American public s most important concerns during the 1990s. According to the 1994 Gallup Poll concern about crime reached its highest point in history in that year. Nevertheless both police arrest records Fox Zawitz 2000 and annual victimization studies Rennison 2000 show that violent crime declined throughout the 1990s. Although it has since dipped in importance crime continues to show up on surveys as a cause for national concern. Moreover fear of crime is widespread despite the fact that violent crime tends to occur in low-income urban areas and not in the suburbs that house the majority of the population Scheingold 1995 . Our research asks whether these polling data reflect the mugging of America not by violent crime but by television news accounts of it. In this research we test several competing theories for the public s .

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