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overrepresentation of minorities as lawbreakers: a standalone construct

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Mass communication

local TV news showing Black people as criminals at rates above arrest statistics while showing them less often as police officers.

In mass communication, overrepresentation of minorities as lawbreakers refers to local TV news showing Black people as criminals at rates above arrest statistics while showing them less often as police officers. This meaning comes from Dixon (2000) in Journal of Communication.[1]

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  1. Dixon, T. L., & Linz, D. (2000). Overrepresentation and Underrepresentation of African Americans and Latinos as Lawbreakers on Television News. Journal of Communication, 50(2), 131-154. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2000.tb02845.x

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