| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w30209 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 30209 |
| Officer-Involved: The Media Language of Police Killings | |
| Jonathan Moreno-Medina ⓡ; Aurelie Ouss ⓡ; Patrick Bayer; ⓡ; Bocar A. Ba | |
| 发表日期 | 2022-07-04 |
| 出版年 | 2022 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper studies the language used in television news broadcasts to describe police killings in the United States from 2013-19. We begin by documenting that the media is significantly more likely to use several language structures - e.g., passive voice, nominalization, intransitive verbs - that obfuscate responsibility for police killings compared to civilian homicides. We next use an online experiment to test whether these language differences matter. Participants are less likely to hold a police officer morally responsible for a killing and to demand penalties after reading a story that uses obfuscatory language. In the experiment, the language used in the story matters more when the decedent is not reported to be armed, prompting a final research question: is media obfuscation more common in high leverage circumstances, when the public might be more inclined to judge the police harshly? Returning to the news data, we find that news broadcasts are indeed especially likely to use obfuscatory language structures when the decedent was unarmed or when body camera video is available. Through this important case study, our paper highlights the importance of incorporating the semantic structure of language, in addition to the amount and slant of coverage, in analyses of how the media shapes perceptions. |
| 主题 | Other ; Law and Economics ; Industrial Organization ; Industry Studies |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w30209 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/587881 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Jonathan Moreno-Medina ⓡ,Aurelie Ouss ⓡ,Patrick Bayer,et al. Officer-Involved: The Media Language of Police Killings. 2022. |
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| w30209.pdf（703KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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