A content analysis of crime news, appearing in Time magazine in selected years during the post-World War II period, explores the ideological nature of reports about crime within a random sample of articles. Examination of the content of articles about crime, criminals and criminal justice, appearing in Time at different junctures during the post-war period, makes possible an analysis of popular ideologies of crime within the context of changes and developments in the political economy of the United States. / The types of crime, characteristics of offenders, causal factors, and commands of what to do about crime within the articles are described. In addition, comparisons are made, within each of these areas, between articles appearing in years with low levels of unemployment and years with high unemployment rates. Comparisons are also made between crime news appearing in the immediate post-war period of economic expansion and reports about crime appearing during the more recent period of stagnation and decline, beginning at the onset of the 1970s. / Defining ideology as discourse which gives a distorted picture of contradictions, misrepresenting the basic contradictions of capitalism in ways which support the interests of the dominant economic class, this research provides evidence that the portrayal of crime within Time magazine during the post-World War II period is ideological. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 52-06, Section: A, page: 2278. / Major Professor: Theodore G. Chiricos. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1991.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_76425 |
| Contributors | Barlow, Melissa Hickman., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 193 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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