Measuring Change in Personal Economic Well-Being

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This article reports the findings of research into the possibility that differences in newspaper coverage of individual criminal cases may influence the behavior of key justice-system officials with respect to those cases. The study analyzed police and court records regarding all people arrested for homicide over an 18-month period in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. Newspaper coverage of those cases also was analyzed. The results suggest that the amount of space newspapers devote to a criminal case helps set the agenda of at least one class of public officials—prosecutors who must decide which criminal cases to plea-bargain, and which to take to trial.

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