Berryessa Colleen M, Sierra-Arévalo Michael, Semenza Daniel C
School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA.
Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
J Exp Criminol. 2023 Dec;19(4):865-890. doi: 10.1007/s11292-022-09517-x. Epub 2022 Jun 22.
This study examines how characteristics of victims and types of incidents described in a media account of gun violence affect public support for three categories of policies that regulate firearms.
A randomized experiment with a sample of US public ( = 3410).
Victim race, particularly if the victim was Black, was a strong predictor of less public support for all tested categories of firearm regulation. Respondents were less supportive of policies to address gun suicide or accidents and more supportive of policy solutions to mass shootings, compared to street-level gun homicides. Depictions of victim gender, mental illness, prior incarceration, and age were less salient to support across categories of firearm regulation, compared to race and type of incident.
Media coverage of gun violence has heterogenous effects on public support for firearm regulation and may influence support for policies aimed at reducing specific types of gun violence.
本研究考察了枪支暴力媒体报道中描述的受害者特征和事件类型如何影响公众对三类枪支管制政策的支持。
对美国公众样本（N = 3410）进行随机实验。
受害者种族，尤其是受害者为黑人时，是公众对所有测试的枪支管制类别支持度较低的有力预测因素。与街头枪支杀人案相比，受访者对解决枪支自杀或事故政策支持较少，而对大规模枪击事件的政策解决方案支持较多。与种族和事件类型相比，受害者性别、精神疾病、先前监禁和年龄等描述对各类枪支管制支持的影响较小。
枪支暴力的媒体报道对公众对枪支管制的支持有不同影响，并可能影响对旨在减少特定类型枪支暴力政策的支持。
