Missing white woman syndrome; an empirical analysis of race and gender disparities in online news coverage of missing persons /
by Zach Sommers
- Northwestern University: Northwestern University Press, 2016.
- Page 275-314 29cm.
- Quarterly
- Vol. 106, no. 2 (2016).
- The Journal of criminal law and criminology. Vol. 106, no. 2 (2016). 0091-4169 .
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.