Media, race and crime

Racial perceptions and criminal culpability in a multiracial national context

Bibliographic Data

ID12898511
AuthorsSeow Ting Lee (National University of Singapore, corresponding author), Nguyen Phuoc Thien (National University of Singapore)
Year2014
Volume77
Issue1
Pages24-50
Publication date2014-11-13
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Communication Gazette (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1748-0485 • E-ISSN: 1748-0493
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1748048514556978
OpenAlexW2099705168
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited66

This study contributes to the limited literature on race and crime in a multicultural Asian context. Based on a survey in Singapore, where multiracialism is a fundamental political pillar and yet discourse about race is mostly shunned, the findings suggest a relationship between media consumption and racial perceptions. Respondents who consume more race-specific media have less negative racial perceptions of their own race, and more negative racial perceptions about other races. Respondents who consume more crime-related media content on TV, newspapers, and social networking sites tend to be more racially prejudiced against other races. Those who pay more attention to crime-related media content hold more negative racial perceptions of other races, and have harsher criminal culpability judgments of other races while holding a diminished culpability judgment of one’s own race

Context (archaeology · Criminology · Culpability · Geography · Media consumption · Multiculturalism · Newspaper · Perception · Political science · Race (biology · Racism · Sociology · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology

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