TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2022//
TI  - An interreality study of race and homicide news coverage in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
JO  - Crime, media, culture
A1  - Klein, Tim V.
A1  - Hodges, Quincy
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - Building on ethnic blame discourse, the social threat hypothesis, and media bias theories, this article makes a quantitative interreality comparison between homicide news coverage and homicide statistics in Baton Rouge, Louisiana--a city with one of the highest homicide rates in the United States of America. <br><br>FINDINGS reveal that Whites made up 2% of homicide victims in 2018 in Baton Rouge, but represented almost 40% of homicide victims in the news. Press releases issued by local law enforcement also overrepresented White homicide victims, as did follow-up stories. <br><br>FINDINGS on homicide suspects showed that Whites and Latinos were overrepresented, and Blacks were underrepresented.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1741-6590
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/17416590221091851
ID  - ref1
ER  -