Weatherred, J. L., & Moscowitz, L. (2022). 

The objective of this study is to advance the literature on exemplification theory and how media coverage can impact public perceptions of crime. This 3-condition, between-subjects experimental design tests whether specific child abduction news stories influenced parental concerns, in particular their estimation of the likelihood of the crime as a threat in their own communities and for their own families.

An abstract is available online with restricted access to the full article. Journal of Experimental Criminology, 1-20.

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