The Media Representations of Police Image

Research Notes on the Hong Kong’s Occupy Movement

Bibliographic Data

ID3269769
AuthorsWayne W L Chan (Hong Kong Metropolitan University, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume5
Issue3
Publication date2015-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSAGE Open (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2158-2440 • E-ISSN: 2158-2440
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/2158244015607935
OpenAlexW2183698715
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited8

The Hong Kong Police Force has undergone one of its biggest challenges in the Occupy Movement that emerged in the last year. Despite the sheer complexity of the police roles, we know little about its representations in the media coverage, and even less about the extent to which the imagery impacts of police acting as peacekeepers would have been made upon the images of police acting as crime fighters. Against this background, this empirical research aims to investigate the police image and its relation to the police's specifically categorized duties in Hong Kong. The content analysis of local newspaper accounts is used as the research method. It is found that there would be generally negative media representations of police in the order-maintenance work whereas the police images in the crime-fighting duties could still remain positive. The reasons for these findings and their implications for the conceptions of the police role are discussed

Advertising · Business · Content analysis · Criminal justice · Criminology · Empirical research · Media studies · Newspaper · Police science · Political science · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Policing Practices and Perceptions · Psychology

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