University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review
Document Type
Article
Abstract
In “Officer-Involved Shootings”: How the Exonerative Tense of Media Accounts Distorts Reality, the author examines how the use of passive language absolves officers from public and media accountability after a shooting. This Article reports the findings of a first-of-its-kind study designed to measure how the use of the phrase “officer-involved shooting” affects public perceptions of police behavior justifications.
Recommended Citation
Michael Conklin,
“Officer-Involved Shootings”: How the Exonerative Tense of Media Accounts Distorts Reality,
12 U. MIA Race & Soc. Just. L. Rev.
53
(2022)
Available at:
https://repository.law.miami.edu/umrsjlr/vol12/iss1/5