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Title
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Criminal involvement and media use
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Abstract
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| When researchers investigate the relationships between media behavior and criminal behavior, they tend to focus on the links between the content preferences of offenders and the types of crime they have committed. Offenders, however, also differ with respect to their degree of criminal involvement. Although some authors indicate that the consumption of socially disvalued media contents may have a symbolic value for people with a high degree of criminal involvement, or suggest that media may provide them with useful information, the link between this criminality dimension and media use has seldom been thoroughly studied. This article describes the results of a qualitative and quantitative study into the media use of prisoners in five Flemish penitentiaries. It illustrates that the variable degree of subjective criminal involvement is a particularly strong predictor of media uses, preferences, and interests among confined offenders. |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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Deviant behavior. - Washington, D.C.
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Publication
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Washington, D.C.
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2001
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ISSN
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0163-9625
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DOI
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10.1080/016396201753227727
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Volume/pages
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22
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(2001)
, p. 541-570
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ISI
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000171782700004
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Full text (Publisher's DOI)
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Full text (publisher's version - intranet only)
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