Are Criminologists Often Used Content Analysis

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Criminologists that are specialised in media have usually used content analysis to observe the extent and patterns of crime in media, how many times a crime is reported and which are the crimes that media focus on more. Quantitative research strategy is the one that focuses on calculating the frequency of particular things. It counts how many times a word; a specific word is said in TV news or written in newspapers e.g. the word (crime) (Case et al., n.d.). When criminologists use this kind of method, they can calculate the number of headlines which are focusing in a specific form of criminality. We can count how many times a particular word is used in a newspaper and study exactly in what page they are located (Case et al., n.d.).
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