id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt tq57np21k5x Krystin L Krause Supporting the Iron Fist: The News Media and Public Attitudes Towards Crime in Latin America 2013 .txt text/plain 282 12 32 Using Guatemala, El Salvador, and Argentina as cases for a focused comparison, this dissertation relies on extensive content analysis of newspaper coverage of crime, an original survey experiment, and data from the AmericasBarometer surveys to tests the relationship between crime news and support for authoritarian crime control measures. Crime news also influences attitudes towards crime through its mediated relationship with citizen support for authoritarian crime control measures via its effects on fear of crime and self-reported victimization. cache/tq57np21k5x.txt txt/tq57np21k5x.txt