scholarly journals Violence in Popular U.S. Prime Time TV Dramas and the Cultivation of Fear: A Time Series Analysis

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Romer ◽  
Patrick Jamieson
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Fear Of Crime ◽  
Prolonged Exposure ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
Crime Rates ◽  
Cultivation Theory ◽  
Prime Time ◽  
Annual Changes ◽  
Perceptions Of Crime ◽  
Tv Shows

Gerbner and Gross’s cultivation theory predicts that prolonged exposure to TV violence creates fear of crime, symptomatic of a mean world syndrome. We tested the theory’s prediction in a time series model with annual changes in violence portrayal on popular US TV shows from 1972 to 2010 as a predictor of changes in public perceptions of local crime rates and fear of crime. We found that contrary to the prediction that TV violence would affect perceptions of crime rates, TV violence directly predicted fear of crime holding constant national crime rates and perceptions of crime rates. National crime rates predicted fear of crime but only as mediated by perceptions of local crime rates. The findings support an interpretation of cultivation theory that TV drama transports viewers into a fictive world that creates fear of crime but without changing perceptions of a mean world.

Is a Decentralized Police Organization a Better Option in a Modern Democratic Society? A Case Study From South Korea

2021 ◽  
pp. 109861112110420
Author(s):  
Sungil Han ◽  
Jennifer LaPrade ◽  
EuiGab Hwang
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Violent Crime ◽  
Fear Of Crime ◽  
Police Department ◽  
Property Crime ◽  
Interrupted Time Series ◽  
Crime Rates ◽  
Interrupted Time Series Analysis ◽  
Clearance Rates ◽  
Crime Clearance

While western countries have had a decentralized policing model for many years, some countries, such as South Korea, still employ a centralized, national police department. Responding to calls for reform, South Korea launched a pilot program and implemented a more decentralized policing structure in Jeju Island in 2006. This study adds to the policing literature by offering the empirical comparison of a region before and after decentralization of a police department. This study will examine the intervention effects of police decentralization in Jeju, specifically related to crime rates, crime clearance rates, victimization, trust in police, and fear of crime. Using propensity score matching and interrupted time series analysis, this study found that the decentralized policing intervention significantly reduced total crime, violent crime rates, and property crime rates that lasted throughout the intervention period, while improving crime clearance rates for violent crime, as well as reduced fear of crime among residents.

Public Perceptions of Crime

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha L. Shockey-Eckles
Keyword(s):  
Public Perceptions ◽  
Perceptions Of Crime

Environment Redesigned for Crime Prevention with CPTED Strategies — A Case Study of Typical Chinese Community

2014 ◽  
Vol 584-586 ◽  
pp. 805-810
Author(s):  
Cheng Liu
Keyword(s):  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Fear Of Crime ◽  
Environmental Design ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Crime Rates ◽  
Chinese Community ◽  
Simple Idea ◽  
Theory Of Crime

Old communities suffer increasing crime rates in China. The original environment layout can not meet the needs of living safety and needs redesign for crime prevention. The theory of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design or CPTED is based on one simple idea that crime results partly from the opportunities presented by physical environment. It is possible to alter the physical environment so that crime is less likely to occur. This paper focuses on CPTED strategies applied to a typical Chinese community for neighborhood renewal. The physical environment problems associated with community crime and fear of crime are first identified. Four distinct ways to implement CPTED strategies are emphasized and discussed in detail individually in the research: community layout, traffic, landscaping and buildings. The paper ends with pending issues and a major lesson that CPTED must be tailored to the specific problems occurring in particular settings.

American Lawyer and Courtroom Comedies

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Ray Papke
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Prime Time ◽  
Legal Institutions ◽  
Hollywood Movies ◽  
American Law

A large amount of American law-related popular culture is comedic. Inexpensive literature, Hollywood movies, and prime-time series routinely include images of amusing lawyers and accounts of hilarious trials. These pop cultural works entertain readers and viewers and in some instances simultaneously speak to the public’s resentment of powerful legal institutions.

Challenging the Media-Incarceration Complex through Media Education

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bill Yousman
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
The United States ◽  
Crime Rates ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Media Education ◽  
Prime Time ◽  
Crisis Of Representation ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
The Media ◽  
Popular Television

This chapter argues that the United States faces a crisis of representation, for while crime rates remain stable, the TV and other corporate-controlled mass media bury viewers beneath an avalanche of fear-based spectacles in which crime and violence are portrayed as escalating, even life-threatening crises. It then outlines a new program of media education that enables consumers of mass media to develop more informed and empowering views of the complexities of crime and violence. Focusing on prime-time dramatic television as the most prevalent source of fictional images of violence, crime, and incarceration, the chapter addresses the distorted narratives and images that saturate popular television dramas. Drawing upon interviews with ex-prisoners, it also shows how media representations of imprisonment, though inaccurate and misleading, shape the perceptions even of those who have themselves been incarcerated.

scholarly journals Modelling the fear of crime

2017 ◽  
Vol 473 (2203) ◽  
pp. 20170156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael Prieto Curiel ◽  
Steven Bishop
Keyword(s):  
Crime Rate ◽  
Fear Of Crime ◽  
Memory Loss ◽  
Opinion Dynamics ◽  
Crime Rates ◽  
Local Perception ◽  
Dynamics Simulations ◽  
Perception Of Security ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Exact Relationship

How secure people feel in a particular region is obviously linked to the actual crime suffered in that region but the exact relationship between crime and its fear is quite subtle. Two regions may have the same crime rate but their local perception of security may differ. Equally, two places may have the same perception of security even though one may have a significantly lower crime rate. Furthermore, a negative perception might persist for many years, even when crime rates drop. Here, we develop a model for the dynamics of the perception of security of a region based on the distribution of crime suffered by the population using concepts similar to those used for opinion dynamics. Simulations under a variety of conditions illustrate different scenarios and help us determine the impact of suffering more, or less, crime. The inhomogeneous concentration of crime together with a memory loss process is incorporated into the model for the perception of security, and results explain why people are often more fearful than actually victimized; why a region is perceived as being insecure despite a low crime rate; and why a decrease in the crime rate might not significantly improve the perception of security.

Prime Time TV Portrayals of Sex, “Safe Sex” and AIDS: A Longitudinal Analysis

1993 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 628-637 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis T. Lowry ◽  
Jon A. Shidler
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Behaviors ◽  
Longitudinal Analysis ◽  
Safe Sex ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
Substantial Decrease ◽  
Prime Time ◽  
Probability Sample

The primary purpose of this study was to track changes in the numbers and types of sexual behaviors in prime time network TV programs. A probability sample of eighty-eight hours of programs and promos was analyzed for a wide variety of sexual behaviors (verbal, implied, and physical). Contrary to public perceptions, the results indicated a substantial decrease in the hourly rates of sexual behaviors in the programs from fall 1987 to fall 1991.

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