Depictions of female offenders in front-page newspaper stories: The importance of race/ethnicity

dc.contributor.authorBrennan, Pauline K.
dc.contributor.authorVandenberg, Abby L.
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-22T11:57:58Z
dc.date.available2020-01-22T11:57:58Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.descriptionAn earlier version of this paper was presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology (St. Louis).
dc.description.abstractThis paper examined how a female offender’s race/ethnicity influenced how she was portrayed by the media. Existing literature on gender stereotypes, racial and ethnic stereotypes, and media depictions of offenders provided the basis for this study. Few have focused solely on the media’s treatment of offenders, in general, and fewer have looked closely at how the media depict female offenders, in particular. This study, therefore, filled a void. We predicted that minority women would be portrayed less favorably than white women, and conducted a content analysis of front-page newspaper articles that featured female offenders to test our expectation. The articles were gathered from two different U.S. newspapers for the 2006 calendar year—the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times. We found that stories about white female offenders were more likely to contain excuses for their alleged or actual offenses and were, therefore, more likely to take on an overall favorable tone than stories about minority female offenders.
dc.description.sponsorshipUniversity of Nebraska
dc.identifier.citationBrennan, P. K. ve Vandenberg, A. L. (2009). "Depictions of female offenders in front-page newspaper stories: The importance of race/ethnicity". International Journal of Social Inquiry, 2(2), 141-175.
dc.identifier.endpage175
dc.identifier.issn1307-8364
dc.identifier.issn1307-9999
dc.identifier.issue2
dc.identifier.startpage141
dc.identifier.urihttps://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/164138
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11452/6687
dc.identifier.volume2
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUludağ Üniversitesi
dc.relation.journalUludağ Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi / International Journal of Social Inquiry
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subjectMedia depictions of offenders
dc.subjectMedia treatment of offenders
dc.subjectFemale offenders
dc.subjectDifferential treatment by race/ethnicity
dc.subjectGender stereotypes
dc.subjectTechniques of neutralization
dc.subjectRacial/ethnic discrimination
dc.titleDepictions of female offenders in front-page newspaper stories: The importance of race/ethnicity
dc.typeArticle

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