Finland witnessed a surge in crime news reporting during the 1990s. At the same time, there was a significant rise in the levels of fear of crime reported by surveys. This research examines whether and how the two phenomena: news media and fear of violence were associated with each other. The dissertation consists of five sub-studies and a summary article. The first sub-study is a review of crime reporting trends in Finland, in which I have reviewed prior research and used existing Finnish datasets on media contents and crime news media exposure. The second study examines the association between crime media consumption and fear of crime when personal and vicarious victimization experiences have been held constant. Apart from analyzing t...
Tämä tutkimus tarkastelee erään suomalaisen vastamedian osallistumista vaihtoehtoisten todellisuusku...
Crime news in Lithuanian mass media often is presented as hard news. It is not always a mistake, bec...
As digitalization has made possible the collection and analysis of personal data to an unprecedented...
Numerous studies have noted that media representations of violent crime do not corre - spond to actu...
Objectives: Youth violence is a phenomenon that can have long-lasting and serious consequences for i...
In this article, we examine the correlates of fear of violence in the cross-media landscape. The stu...
The association between socioeconomic status (SES) and crime is one of the central themes in crimino...
The purpose of the thesis is to find countermeasures for journalists in encountering threats done vi...
In Finland, a post-war expansion of the welfare state was associated with a decline in the use of im...
In 2020 and 2021, the Finnish news media covered violent youth crime extensively. Not because it ha...
Straipsnyje aptariama viena aktualiausių šiuolaikinių kriminologinių problemų — nusikaltimų baimė. A...
This comprehensive review examines media consumption and crime fear. Due to the media's focus on sen...
Two school shootings in Finland (Jokela in 2007 and Kauhajoki in 2008) resulted in the death of 20 p...
The present study examines Finnish media portrayals of homegrown terrorism’s causal dynamics between...
The project investigated the presentation of crime in the Lithuanian media and its possible impact o...
Tämä tutkimus tarkastelee erään suomalaisen vastamedian osallistumista vaihtoehtoisten todellisuusku...
Crime news in Lithuanian mass media often is presented as hard news. It is not always a mistake, bec...
As digitalization has made possible the collection and analysis of personal data to an unprecedented...
Numerous studies have noted that media representations of violent crime do not corre - spond to actu...
Objectives: Youth violence is a phenomenon that can have long-lasting and serious consequences for i...
In this article, we examine the correlates of fear of violence in the cross-media landscape. The stu...
The association between socioeconomic status (SES) and crime is one of the central themes in crimino...
The purpose of the thesis is to find countermeasures for journalists in encountering threats done vi...
In Finland, a post-war expansion of the welfare state was associated with a decline in the use of im...
In 2020 and 2021, the Finnish news media covered violent youth crime extensively. Not because it ha...
Straipsnyje aptariama viena aktualiausių šiuolaikinių kriminologinių problemų — nusikaltimų baimė. A...
This comprehensive review examines media consumption and crime fear. Due to the media's focus on sen...
Two school shootings in Finland (Jokela in 2007 and Kauhajoki in 2008) resulted in the death of 20 p...
The present study examines Finnish media portrayals of homegrown terrorism’s causal dynamics between...
The project investigated the presentation of crime in the Lithuanian media and its possible impact o...
Tämä tutkimus tarkastelee erään suomalaisen vastamedian osallistumista vaihtoehtoisten todellisuusku...
Crime news in Lithuanian mass media often is presented as hard news. It is not always a mistake, bec...
As digitalization has made possible the collection and analysis of personal data to an unprecedented...