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Exploring how White and Black Male offenders are represented differently in print/text media
Psychological, literature review, critical race, theory-male offenders, institutional racism,
social, disorganization theory and male offenders
framing, agenda setting, and media priming
Bandura social cog & media
Studies
• Gender differences in authors depiction of white and black male offenders
• Racial disparity and sentence differences
• Ideal victim
• Discourse, language and images represent white and black male offenders differently i.e. stereotypes, micro aggression, sympathy, judgment, glorifying, mugshots
• Crime categorization and race (white, blue collar crime)
• Geographic location bias
I did a thematic analysis on 20 articles from the evening standard newspaper. The themes that I identified are media bias, visual stimuli, offender background, criminal justice system and victims. I need this to write the discussion which does not and rewrite the introduction. Therefore, I would like a clear break down of each of the theories above and a list of studies that support or disprove the bullet points. I am a forensic psychologist master’s student. Please relate the research to the depiction of male offenders.
The aim of this study is to assess the following:
1. To understand how the media use images, discourse and language to represent male offenders.
2. To identify any racial bias in how the media, represent White versus Black male offenders.