Fear and marginalization : a mixed-methodological approach of the language in four Canadian newspapers /

It has been well established that fear of crime is, at least in part, influenced by the media. Despite the diversity of media outlets, a common discourse often emerges that criminal behavior is a product of bad people from poor neighborhoods preying on innocent and undeserving victims. The use of mi...

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Main Author:	Collins, Rachael E. (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Los Angeles, California] : SAGE, 2014.
Series:	SAGE research methods. Cases.
Subjects:	Crime in mass media > Research > Case studies. Fear of crime > Research > Canada > Case studies. Critical discourse analysis > Case studies. Criminalité dans les médias > Recherche > Études de cas. Peur du crime > Recherche > Canada > Études de cas. Analyse critique du discours > Études de cas. Critical discourse analysis Canada Electronic books. Case studies
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Summary:	It has been well established that fear of crime is, at least in part, influenced by the media. Despite the diversity of media outlets, a common discourse often emerges that criminal behavior is a product of bad people from poor neighborhoods preying on innocent and undeserving victims. The use of mixed methodology can be productive in detecting these common threads from discourse, particularly across time and place. In the case described here, a combination of content analysis and critical discourse analysis were undertaken to determine the prevalence of language provoking fear of crime and marginalization on a cross-section of Canadian print media and whether the portrayals of crime have changed over a span of 30 years.
Physical Description:	1 online resource
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	9781473948457 1473948452