Canadian Policing Research Catalogue

Location

Canadian Policing Research

Resource

e-Books

Alternate Title

Couverture médiatique du crime organisé : enquête auprès des dirigeants policiers.

Authors

• Dubois, Judith.
• Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Community, Contract and Aboriginal Policing Services Directorate. Research and Evaluation Branch.

Publishers

• Ottawa :  Research and Evaluation Branch, Community, Contract and Aboriginal Policing Services Directorate, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, 2003.

Bibliography

Bibliography: p. 33.

Description

1 online resource (33 p.)

Note

"May 2003."
Issued also in French under title: Couverture médiatique du crime organisé : enquête auprès des dirigeants policiers.
Description based on print version record.

Summary

This study queries police managers to find out what they feel about how the media covers stories about organized crime and how police feel the media coverage of organized crime affects the public perception of organized crime. The main question this study poses is "Is the story of organized crime told by the media actually the real truth?"

Subject

• Organized crime - Press coverage - Canada.
• Police administration - Canada.
• Police and mass media - Canada.
• Organized crime - Canada - Public opinion.
• Public opinion - Canada.

Contents

1. Introduction. -- 2. Aims of the study. -- 3. Methodology. -- 4. How media coverage of organized crime is perceived. -- 4. Influences.