« Dites-moi quel crime il a commis et je vous dirai d’où il vient »
l’origine ethnique ou nationale des criminels et sa mention dans la presse dans l’affaire Joe Van Holsbeeck
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https://doi.org/10.14428/emulations.016.005Keywords:
Media, Criminality, Ethnic origin, Stereotype, Indexical value, Referential valueAbstract
« Tell me his crime and I'll tell you where he comes from » The reporting of criminals’ ethnic or national origin in the press in the Joe Van Holsbeeck case
Previous studies demonstrate frequent mentions of the ethnicity or nationality of criminals in Western media. In order to identify the relevance attributed by journalists to such information, we analyzed editorials that were published in six Belgian newspapers on the Joe Van Holsbeeck case, named after a teenager who was killed while thieves tried to steal his MP3-player. The analysis shows that such information pulls the crime out of its immediate context in order to place it within a system of preexisting representations. In that sense, reporting the ethnic or national origins of suspects holds referential rather than indexical value.
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