Criminologists have documented that the amount of coverage a crime victim receives affects how much attention police dev — Barry Glassner, The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things
Criminologists have documented that the amount of coverage a crime victim receives affects how much attention police dev — Barry Glassner, The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things
Criminologists have documented that the amount of coverage a crime victim receives affects how much attention police dev — Barry Glassner, The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things
Criminologists have documented that the amount of coverage a crime victim receives affects how much attention police dev — Barry Glassner, The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things
Criminologists have documented that the amount of coverage a crime victim receives affects how much attention police dev — Barry Glassner, The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things
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Criminologists have documented that the amount of coverage a crime victim receives affects how much attention police devote to the case and the willingness of prosecutors to accept plea bargains.

— Barry Glassner, The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things
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