Toward an Understanding of Aggregate Death Penalty Opinion Change
A Possible Role for Popular Music
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12969737 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Böhm (0000-0001-6806-0374, University of Central Florida, corresponding author), Ray Surette (0000-0003-4469-8167, University of Central Florida) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Pages | 32-56 |
| Publication date | 2013-04-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Criminology and Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1929-4409 • E-ISSN: 1929-4409 |
| Publisher | Lifescience Global (PUBLISHER • CA) |
| DOI | 10.6000/1929-4409.2013.02.5 |
| OpenAlex | W2006635540 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 27 |
This study examines the relationship between popular music; specifically, death penalty songs, and aggregate death penalty opinion change utilizing an exploratory time series analysis. An assumption of this study is that the public is made conscious of the death penalty as a salient issue through the popular media, e.g., newspaper stories, magazine articles, movies, television programs, and music. Results of this study support the hypotheses that public consciousness about the death penalty as well as changes in aggregate death penalty opinion are associated with the content of popular media in the form of death penalty songs. As the number of death penalty songs increases in a year, death penalty support decreases two years later
Advertising · Business · Consciousness · Newspaper · Political science · Politics · Public opinion · Salient · Computational and Text Analysis Methods · Law · Media Influence and Health · Media Studies and Communication · Psychology
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The Politics of Injustice
Folk Devils and Moral Panics
The Contradictions of American Capital Punishment
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Bolstering an Illusory Majority
The development of moral judgments concerning capital punishment
Family experience and public support of the death penalty
The role of transportation in the persuasiveness of public narratives
Biased assimilation and attitude polarization
Constructing Racial Rhetoric
Cognitive Dissonance, Media Illiteracy, and Public Opinion on News Media
Crime Waves as Ideology
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |