The purpose of this study was to explore how crime is presented in local media. I hypothesized that white collar crime is under-represented in media and that it is viewed as less serious than street crime. Using content analysis I read and coded 151 news articles from the Indianapolis Star. I recorded all of my data with a code sheet. I divided my variables into manifest and latent variables, so I could adequately test my hypothesis. After running statistical tests in SPSS, my biggest finding was that white collar crime only made up 4% of the data I collected, however white collar crime actually makes up much more than 4% of crime today. While we cannot give an exact percentage of white collar crime due to underrepresentation, the data that we do have tells us in my findings that white collar crime was under-represented in Indianapolis media.

Creator

• Ryan, Courtney

Contributors

• Whiteacre, Kevin

Publisher

• University of Indianapolis

Language

• en

Identifier

• Ryan, Courtney_Final Honors Project.pdf

Keyword

• Baccalaureate 'with distinction'

• Strain Honors College

Date created

• 2017-05-06

Rights statement

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/