Resources

Gerbner, Gross, Morgan and Signorielli.  "Living with Television: the Dynamics of the Cultivation Process." in Bryant and Zilmann, (eds.).  Perspectives on Media Effects (1986), pp.17-40.

Stossel, Scott.  "The Man Who Counts the Killings." 
The Atlantic Monthly (May 1997).

Cohen, Jonathan and Weimann, Gabriel. "Cultivation Revisited: Some Genres Have Some Effects on Some Viewers." 
Communication Reports, v13, n2, summer 2000.

The Cultivation Theory: George Gerbner.  Retrieved from http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/Speech/rccs/theory06.htm on February 17, 2003.

Audience Research: Cultivation Analysis.  Retrieved from http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/A/htmlA/audienceresec/audienceresec.htm on February 17, 2003.

"Violence on television--What do children learn? What can parents do?" 
APA Online.  Retrieved from http://www.apa.org/pubinfo/violence.html

Nacos, Brigitte L.  "Television and Its Viewers." 
Political Science Quarterly.  Summer 2000, v115, iss2, p317.

McQuivey, James.  "Fearing the 'Mean World': Exploring the Victim-Offender Relationship's Influence on Fear of Violent Crime." S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University.  Retrieved from http://web.syr.edu/~jlmcquiv/mean_world.html

Morton, L.L.; Wilson, E.; Laing, D.A.  "Television Influences on Moral Concerns of Early Adolescents." 
Guidance & Counseling.  Autumn 1999, v15, iss1, p22.

Reber, Bryan H.; Chang, Yuhmiin.  "Assessing cultivation theory and public health model for crime reporting." 
Newspaper Research Journal.  Fall 2000, v21, iss4, p99

Howitt, Denis. 
Crime, the Media and the Law.  West Sussex, England: John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 1998.

Giles, Howard. 
Law Enforcement, Communication and Community.  John Benjamins Publishing Company; Amsterdam/Philadelphia.  2002.

Graber, Doris. 
Crime News and the Public.  New York: Praeger, 1980, pg24,26.

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