Publications
Publication details [#44657]
Grabe, Maria Elizabeth, Jennifer Rauch, K. D. Trager and Melissa Lear. 2006. Gender in Crime News: A Case Study Test of the Chivalry Hypothesis. Mass Communication & Society 9 (2) : 137–163. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Erlbaum
Annotation
This content analysis of 6 months of crime reporting in a local U.S. newspaper partially supports the chivalry hypothesis that female criminals reveice more lenient treatment.