Officer-Involved: The Media Language of Police Killings

This paper examines language patterns in US television news coverage of police killings. We first document that the media employ semantic structures that obfuscate responsibility—such as passive voice, nominalizations, and intransitive verbs—more frequently for police killings than for civilian kill...

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Veröffentlicht in:	NBER Working Paper Series 2022-07
Hauptverfasser:	Bayer, Patrick, Ouss, Aurelie, Moreno-Medina, Jonathan, Ba, Bocar A
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Economic theory Labor Studies Language Law and Economics Political Economy Public Economics
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