Citation

Greene JR, Bynum TS. J. Crim. Justice 1982; 10(3): 177-190.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1982, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/0047-2352(82)90038-1

PMID

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Abstract

Reviewing the literature on the effect of television viewing on behavior, the authors suggest that if indeed the content of television programs can encourage antisocial behavior in some groups of viewers, the image of crime and characteristics of criminal actors presented on television may play an important role in the adoption of criminal behavior by lower-class adolescents. Data are presented that indicate the variance between the view of crime presented by the television media and that found in official statistics. The implications of this discrepancy for models of delinquency are discussed.