Media Exposure and Racialized Perceptions of Inequities in Criminal Justice

Does media exposure to salient criminological events exacerbate racialized perceptions of injustice? We examine whether closely following media coverage of the fatal encounter of George Zimmerman’s shooting of Trayvon Martin moderates racial and ethnic differences in opinion surrounding the event an...

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Main Authors: Valerie Wright, Isaac Unah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2017-06-01
Series:Social Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/6/3/67