Politics of Force Media and the Construction of Police Brutality

Name: Politics of Force Media and the Construction of Police Brutality
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ISBN: 9780520221925

ISBN-10: 0520221923

ISBN-13: 9780520221925

Edition: 2000

Authors: Regina G. Lawrence

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When police brutality becomes front-page news, it triggers a sudden, intense interaction between the media, the public, and the police. Regina Lawrence ably demonstrates how these news events provide the raw materials for looking at underlying problems in American society. Journalists, policy makers, and the public use such stories to define a problematic situation, and this process of problem definition gives the media a crucial role in our public policy debates. Lawrence extensively analyzes more than 500 incidents of police use-of-force covered by theNew York Timesand theLos Angeles Timesfrom 1985 to 1994, with additional analysis of more recent incidents such as as the shooting of…

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List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/6/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 268
Size: 6.25" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface



Mediating Realities: The Social Construction of Problems in the Media Arena



Making a Problem of Brutality



Normalizing Coercion: Competing Claims about Police Use of Force



Setting the Agenda: Rodney King and the Los Angeles Times



Making Big News: Story Cues and Critical Coverage of Policing



Struggling for Definition: Policing Problems in the New York Times



Interpreting Rodney King: Police Brutality in the National Media Arena



Accidents Will Happen: The News and Event-Driven Problem Definition



Research Strategy


Notes


References


Index