McDevitt S
Department of Social Work, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls 50614, USA.
Child Abuse Negl. 1996 Apr;20(4):261-74. doi: 10.1016/0145-2134(96)00008-7.
This study explores the relationship between news stories on child abuse and neglect and reports of child abuse and neglect made to a mandated agency. Academic literature on crime news is reviewed to provide a context for interpretation. News stories from metropolitan daily newspapers were compared with child maltreatment reports made to mandated agencies on a local and national basis were surveyed over 25 years. The results suggested that both child maltreatment reports and news coverage increased over the period surveyed. However, rather than media stories increasing prior to increases in mandated reports and therefore contributing to the rise in reported cases, they appeared to increase at the same time. It is suggested that the initial cause of both increases may be national policy changes. More recent increases in child abuse reports may be due to economic downturns and other widespread societal changes rather than media attention.
本研究探讨了关于虐待和忽视儿童的新闻报道与向法定机构提交的虐待和忽视儿童报告之间的关系。回顾了关于犯罪新闻的学术文献以提供解读背景。将来自都市日报的新闻报道与在25年期间对地方和全国法定机构提交的儿童虐待报告进行了比较。结果表明，在调查期间，儿童虐待报告和新闻报道均有所增加。然而，媒体报道并非在法定报告增加之前就增加并因此导致报告案件的上升，而是似乎同时增加。研究表明，两者增加的最初原因可能是国家政策变化。近期儿童虐待报告的增加可能是由于经济衰退和其他广泛的社会变化，而非媒体关注。
