The Usual Suspects: Offender Origin, Media Reporting and Natives’ Attitudes Towards Immigration
中文摘要
本文分析媒体系统性地披露犯罪者来源是否影响本地人对外来移民的态度。研究利用德国报纸《萨克森报》（Sächsische Zeitung）于2016年7月宣布的报道政策单向变化。我们将2014至2018年德国社会经济面板的个体层面面板数据，与德国报纸中402,819篇与犯罪相关的文章及这些报纸的市场份额相结合，发现系统性地提及犯罪者来源提高了本地人对犯罪问题的相对凸显性，并降低了本地人对移民的担忧，打破了移民与犯罪之间的隐含关联。
Abstract
This paper analyses whether the systematic disclosure of criminals’ origins in the press affects natives’ attitudes towards immigration. It takes advantage of the unilateral change in reporting policy announced by the German newspaper Sächsische Zeitung in July 2016. Combining individual-level panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 2014 to 2018 with 402,819 crime-related articles in German newspapers and those newspapers’ market shares, we find that systematically mentioning the origins of criminals increases the relative salience of natives’ criminality and reduces natives’ concerns about immigration, breaking the implicit link between immigration and crime.