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Missing white woman syndrome; an empirical analysis of race and gender disparities in online news coverage of missing persons / by Zach Sommers

By:

Sommers, Zach

Material type:

Continuing resourceSeries: The Journal of criminal law and criminology ; Vol. 106, no. 2 (2016).Publication details: --Northwestern University: Northwestern University Press, 2016.Description: Page 275-314 29cmISSN:

0081-4169

DDC classification:

BPer 364.05 J82

Summary: At any given time, there are tens of thousands of Americans categorized as "missing" by law enforcement. However, only a fraction of those individuals receive news coverage, leading some commentators to hypothesize that missing persons with certain characteristics are more likely to garner media attention than others: namely, white women and girls.

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At any given time, there are tens of thousands of Americans categorized as "missing" by law enforcement. However, only a fraction of those individuals receive news coverage, leading some commentators to hypothesize that missing persons with certain characteristics are more likely to garner media attention than others: namely, white women and girls.

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