期刊名称：Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture
电子版ISSN：1070-8286
出版年度：2008
卷号：15
期号：1
出版社：State University of New York at Albany
摘要：In recent years identity theft has established itself in the ethos of the digital age. Even so, scholarship toward identity theft in general is strikingly limited. This work fills a gap by addressing the style, substance,and focus of themediarepresentation of identity theft viaa content analysis of a nationally representative sample of offender focusednewspaper articles from 1995-2005. The findings suggest that the media represent identity theft through scornful remarks, general astonishment with victimization, alarmdue to the ease of offending through the use of technology, and by suggesting that identity theft is an unstoppable problem.Discourse on the relationship between this new form of criminality and the media is provided and direction for future research is suggested
