Depictions of female offenders in front-page newspaper stories: The importance of race/ethnicity

dc.contributor.authorBrennan, Pauline K.
dc.contributor.authorVandenberg, Abby L.
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-22T11:57:58Z
dc.date.available2020-01-22T11:57:58Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.descriptionAn earlier version of this paper was presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology (St. Louis).tr_TR
dc.description.abstractThis paper examined how a female offender’s race/ethnicity influenced how she was portrayed by the media. Existing literature on gender stereotypes, racial and ethnic stereotypes, and media depictions of offenders provided the basis for this study. Few have focused solely on the media’s treatment of offenders, in general, and fewer have looked closely at how the media depict female offenders, in particular. This study, therefore, filled a void. We predicted that minority women would be portrayed less favorably than white women, and conducted a content analysis of front-page newspaper articles that featured female offenders to test our expectation. The articles were gathered from two different U.S. newspapers for the 2006 calendar year—the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times. We found that stories about white female offenders were more likely to contain excuses for their alleged or actual offenses and were, therefore, more likely to take on an overall favorable tone than stories about minority female offenders.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipUniversity of Nebraskaen
dc.identifier.citationBrennan, P. K. ve Vandenberg, A. L. (2009). "Depictions of female offenders in front-page newspaper stories: The importance of race/ethnicity". International Journal of Social Inquiry, 2(2), 141-175.tr_TR
dc.identifier.endpage175tr_TR
dc.identifier.issn1307-8364
dc.identifier.issn1307-9999
dc.identifier.issue2tr_TR
dc.identifier.startpage141tr_TR
dc.identifier.urihttps://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/164138
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11452/6687
dc.identifier.volume2tr_TR
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherUludağ Üniversitesitr_TR
dc.relation.journalUludağ Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi / International Journal of Social Inquirytr_TR
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergitr_TR
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectMedia depictions of offendersen_US
dc.subjectMedia treatment of offendersen_US
dc.subjectFemale offendersen_US
dc.subjectDifferential treatment by race/ethnicityen_US
dc.subjectGender stereotypesen_US
dc.subjectTechniques of neutralizationen_US
dc.subjectRacial/ethnic discriminationen_US
dc.titleDepictions of female offenders in front-page newspaper stories: The importance of race/ethnicityen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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