A test of a crime and justice infotainment measure

    Authors

    R. Surette;C. Otto

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    J. Crim. Justice

    Keywords

    TELEVISION; Criminology & Penology

    Abstract

    In recent years, a new term which combined aspects of both news and entertainment into a single format had been introduced into the crime and justice media vocabulary-infotainment. Media history reflected information and entertainment as usually presented separate and distinct. Early television programming, for example, could easily be recognized and classified as news or entertainment, but recently, the line between news and entertainment had become bluffed. Beginning in the late 1980s, contemporary infotainment programs like Geraldo or Unsolved Mysteries began to appear on television and the genre had increased steadily in popularity. Since the 1980s, it had become more difficult for television viewers and media consumers in general to identify what was news and what was entertainment. This article presents a brief history of crime and justice infotainment and develops and tests a measurement refinement of crime and justice infotainment programming. Additionally, it offers research directions for exploring the impact of such programming. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.

    Journal Title

    Journal of Criminal Justice

    Volume

    30

    Issue/Number

    5

    Publication Date

    1-1-2002

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    443

    Last Page

    453

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000178153400008

    ISSN

    0047-2352

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