This article reviews evidence for the effects of public opinion on court decision-making,
capital punishment policy and use, correctional expenditures, and incarceration rates. It also …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a systematic review of the literature
examining the role of news media consumption and awareness in shaping public attitudes …

The mission of policing is “to protect and serve,” but recent events suggest that many
Americans, and especially Black Americans, do not feel protected from the police …

Characterizing Trump supporters either as “duped” by Fox News or as speaking from their
lived experience misses the fact that both are true. We draw on scholarship on narrative and …

Research Summary We administered a survey experiment to a national sample of 1068 US
adults in April 2020 to determine the factors that shape support for various policing tactics in …

The eighth edition of this text remains an indispensable resource for mass communication
psychology and media effects courses. This book gives readers an in-depth understanding …

Theories of media effects have long established a link between media consumption and fear
of crime. To date, prior investigations have almost exclusively focused on traditional types of …

Morality is thought to underlie both ideological and punitive attitudes. In particular, moral
foundations research suggests that group-oriented moral concerns promote a conservative …

Objectives Similar to researchers in other disciplines, criminologists increasingly are using
online crowdsourcing and opt-in panels for sampling, because of their low cost and …

Abstract Objectives Policing in the United States has come under intense scrutiny following
numerous deadly force incidents involving unarmed black citizens, which dominated the …