Constructing the Knife Crime Epidemic: A Corpus-Assisted Critical Study of the Media Reporting

构建持刀犯罪流行：语料库辅助的媒体报道批判性研究

• 批准号: 2885937
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Glasgow
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2885937
• 关键词: Constructing; Knife; Crime; Epidemic; Corpus

The proposed research will reveal how the British media manipulate language to construct a distorted image of knife-enabled crime which has been shaping stigmatising attitudes towards young people and ethnic minorities, and generating support for punitive criminal justice policies. To identify key framing strategies in a representative dataset of media coverage, the research employs a Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Studies approach. Linguistic evidence is examined through the lens of Moral Panic Theory to uncover how the media is influencing public and political discussions on policing and crime legislation, and establishes marginalising associations between crime and vulnerablegroups affected by labelling practices.

这项拟议中的研究将揭示英国媒体如何操纵语言，以构建一种扭曲的持刀犯罪形象，这种形象一直在塑造对年轻人和少数民族的污名化态度，并为惩罚性刑事司法政策提供支持。为了在具有代表性的媒体报道数据集中确定关键框架策略，本研究采用了语料库辅助批评话语研究方法。通过道德恐慌理论的镜头检查语言证据，揭示媒体如何影响公众和政治讨论警务和犯罪立法，并建立边缘化犯罪和受标签做法影响的弱势群体之间的联系。