People who strongly endorse values of masculine honor are more likely to justify practices that indirectly support the Mafia’s authority in communities, including refusing to report crimes, turning a blind eye to criminal activities, or seeking help from Mafia members rather than authorities.
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PsyPost
Masculine honor, social identity, and the Sicilian Mafia: New insights from research
A recent study found that masculine honor predicts justification of Mafia-aligned behaviors, strengthened by territorial identity and weakened by national identity.
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Expressing lower emotion on 911 calls is associated with greater suspicion that the caller is involved in the crime they are reporting,. Five studies used both real and simulated 911 calls with both police and laypeople as participants.
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Study of 40 local newsrooms finds journalists trapped between two harms: ignoring some homicide victims or stigmatizing high-violence communities
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#JournalismEthics #CrimeReporting #MediaBias
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Wiley Online Library
Which deaths count? Debating homicide coverage amidst newsroom scarcity
Past research documents disparities in which homicides receive news coverage and how victims are portrayed, yet the organizational processes producing these patterns remain understudied. This paper a...
Local crime journalists are changing how they cover police and jails after years of official dishonesty and low transparency
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Sage Journals
Beyond Police Stenography: How Disembedding Enables Critical Crime News Work - Jonathan Ben-Menachem, 2026
Prior research finds that crime journalists reproduced criminal justice organization standpoints through close working relationships with law enforcement. How d...
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