Liebl Karlhans
Hochschule der Sächsischen Polizei (FH), Rothenburg/Oberlausitz.
Arch Kriminol. 2007 Sep-Oct;220(3-4):85-102.
The question investigated in the presented paper is whether crime is discussed differently in the media of former East and West Germany, how it is weighted and whether the real crime situation provides an explanation for any differences in press coverage. The study showed that there are no significant differences in the press coverage and that violent crime is not overrepresented. Coverage of offences like robbery, damage to property, sexual assaults or bodily injury, which are also categorized as violent crime, was of average frequency, so that again there was no overrepresentation in the newspapers of the two cities compared in this study (Stuttgart and Dresden). Surprisingly, sexual offences such as rape or sexual abuse played a minor role in the daily newspapers. Further interesting results of the analysis were that offences in the field of "intelligent crime" (e. g. white-collar crime) were of no importance in the print media, whereas the number of reports on crimes for which the general public assumes a higher probability to become a victim itself (e. g. burglary and robbery) was disproportionately high in relation to the recorded number of cases. Reports on drug offences played a more important role in the newspapers analyzed by us than violent crime.
本文所研究的问题是，前东德和西德的媒体对犯罪的报道是否存在差异，如何权衡，以及实际犯罪情况是否能解释新闻报道中的任何差异。研究表明，新闻报道中没有显著差异，暴力犯罪也没有被过度报道。抢劫、财产损害、性侵犯或身体伤害等也被归类为暴力犯罪的犯罪报道频率处于平均水平，因此在本研究中进行比较的两个城市（斯图加特和德累斯顿）的报纸中同样没有过度报道。令人惊讶的是，强奸或性虐待等性犯罪在日报中所占比重较小。分析的进一步有趣结果是，“智能犯罪”（如白领犯罪）领域的犯罪在平面媒体中并不重要，而公众认为自己更有可能成为受害者的犯罪（如入室盗窃和抢劫）的报道数量相对于记录的案件数量而言过高。毒品犯罪报道在我们分析的报纸中比暴力犯罪发挥了更重要的作用。
