Most studies on media coverage of homicide victims rely on aggregate samples of adults and youth. This talk focuses exclusively on media depictions of young homicide victims. Valerie Wright, an assistant professor in the Department of Criminology, Anthropology and Sociology at Cleveland State University, will discuss legal and extralegal factors that contribute to newspaper coverage of juvenile homicides, the extent to which victims’ race contribute to divergent amounts of coverage and depictions of victims and how blame is contextualized in print news. The implications of the findings will be discussed in light of several high-profile killings of young African Americans, including Trayvon Martin.
The event will take place Wednesday (Feb. 27) at 10 a.m. in the Mountainlair Student Union's Rhododendron Room. It is sponsored by the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
For more information read the article on the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences website.