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- Title
Polls, Politics, and Crime: The "Law and Order" Issue of the 1960s.
- Authors
Loo, Dennis D.; Grimes, Ruth-Ellen M.
- Abstract
Conventional and scholarly opinion hold that public crime concerns in the 1960s reached, for the first time in history, the status of number one domestic problem, and that the civil disturbances of the era exacerbated white Americans' crime fears. Our systematic reanalysis of both the polling data and riot incidence data of that period finds the conventional and scholarly opinion to be erroneous. Our analysis of the role of media, public officials, and pollsters in shaping the prevailing view about crime during the 1960s supports a hypothesis of an elite- engineered moral panic.
- Subjects
CRIME; NINETEEN sixties; RIOTS; CRIME &; the press; PUBLIC administration; PUBLIC opinion polls
- Publication
Western Criminology Review, 2004, Vol 5, Issue 1, p50
- ISSN
1096-4886
- Publication type
Article