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Title
American Drug Story How Racialized Media Depictions of Drug Crises Shape Policy Agendas
Description
I explore the relationship between social constructions of target audiences and the impact of these constructions on policy outcomes in the context of two drug crises: the crack epidemic in the 1980s and 1990s and the opioid crisis that began in the first decade of the 2000s. Using a content analysis of media depictions of the drug users during each crisis, I find that racialized depictions of drug users are used to reinforce stereotypes of either deviant or dependent classifications of the target audience. These social constructions are combined in the media coverage with suggested policy frames appealing to the necessity criminal justice and/or public health approaches to policy agenda used to address the drug crisis. These frames and social constructions help explain the disparate policy approaches employed in both eras.
Date Created
2020
Contributors
- McCubbins, Amanda Rose (Author)
- Fridkin, Kim (Thesis advisor)
- Hero, Rodney (Committee member)
- Wright, Thorin (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
Topical Subject
Resource Type
Extent
62 pages
Language
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
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Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.57402
Level of coding
minimal
Note
Masters Thesis Political Science 2020
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- 2020-06-01 08:38:29
System Modified
- 2021-08-26 09:47:01
- 2 years 8 months ago
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