Bjornstrom Eileen E S, Kaufman Robert L, Peterson Ruth D, Slater Michael D
Soc Probl. 2010 May 1;57(2):269-293. doi: 10.1525/sp.2010.57.2.269.
Research on racial-ethnic portrayals in television crime news is limited and questions remain about the sources of representations and how these vary for perpetrators versus victims. We draw from power structure, market share, normal crimes, racial threat, and racial privileging perspectives to further this research. The reported race or ethnicity of violent crime perpetrators and victims are modeled as functions of: (1) situational characteristics of crime stories; and (2) contextual characteristics of television market areas. The primary data are from a stratified random sample of television newscasts in 2002-2003 (Long et al. 2005). An important innovation of our work is the use of a national, more generalizeable, sample of local news stories than prior researchers who tended to focus on single market areas. Results indicate that both the context of the story itself and the social structural context within which news stories are reported are relevant to ethnic and racial portrayals in crime news. We find limited support for power structure, market share, normal crimes and racial threat explanations of patterns of reporting. Racial privileging arguments receive more extensive support.
关于电视犯罪新闻中种族-族裔形象的研究有限，关于形象来源以及犯罪者与受害者形象差异的问题依然存在。我们从权力结构、市场份额、普通犯罪、种族威胁和种族特权等角度来推进这项研究。暴力犯罪犯罪者和受害者的种族或族裔报道被建模为以下因素的函数：（1）犯罪故事的情境特征；（2）电视市场区域的背景特征。主要数据来自2002 - 2003年电视新闻广播的分层随机样本（朗等人，2005年）。我们研究的一个重要创新之处在于，与以往倾向于关注单一市场区域的研究人员相比，我们使用了全国性的、更具普遍性的本地新闻故事样本。结果表明，故事本身的背景以及报道新闻故事的社会结构背景都与犯罪新闻中的种族和族裔形象有关。我们发现，权力结构、市场份额、普通犯罪和种族威胁对报道模式的解释支持有限。种族特权论点得到了更广泛的支持。
