Manufacturing white criminals: Depictions of criminality on Law and Order

[matt3210]

It appears that portraying anyone as criminals on tv will increase public perception of those groups criminality. Solution: make them Klingons.

[msie]

Yeah. Reminds me of a video game class i took where one of my cohorts thought of doing a prison simulator. The guy who had the idea was white and saw no problem with the racial composition of the simulated prison. Yikes

[burnished]

Yes, it is the whites who have been harmed by depictions of criminality! Not the blacks or the poor's, they've been living too high on the hog I'd you ask me.

In seriousness your abstract is a place to explain the purpose of your paper and summarize your findings. The following has no place.

Direct quote

"Results suggest whites are disproportionately portrayed as criminals five to eight times more often on police dramas compared to actual crime statistics for the city of New York, exposure to police dramas increases beliefs of threats to personal safety, and exposure to police dramas leads to elevated perceptions of white criminality among non-whites."

Your abstract should have concrete take aways about your research, regardless of whether you or anyone else likes the results of said research.

[AinderS]

> The following has no place.

I don't follow. Why do the results of their study have no place in the abstract?

And merely sarcastically re-stating the findings of the study is not a counter-argument.

[msie]

I was thinking of depictions of programmers in movie and tv are unrealistic. And hacking a firewall is not like playing a videogame.

[msie]

Oh man