Emperical Research

Bulck, J. V. (2004). Research Note: The Relationship between Television Fiction and

Fear of Crime. An Empirical Comparison of Three Casual Explanations.

European Journal of Communication. 19, 239-248.

The main topic of this article relates to how watching television increases fear of crime with TV viewers. This article uses three different hypothesis's to show the relationship between watching television and a heightened fear of crime. The article also explains why people watch more crime on TV than others, and why some people become more afraid of crime because of the television shows they watch.

This article also used quantitative methods. This method was used because the research involves a lot of precise numbers, and through the various numbers it uses; the researcher comes to the conclusion which she was researching. There are a set number of participants the researcher uses, then the questions the researcher asked in the survey handed out asked the TV viewers the certain time periods they watched TV. How many TV shows they watched in a day, what specific days they watched TV, and how many hours they watch TV. With all these various numbers it is clear that this article uses quantitative methods over qualitative.

Exemplary literature review is used in this article and the argument in this article seems to be based off of deductive reasoning. The researcher wants to find a reason for TV viewers heightened fear of crime and she comes to this conclusion by following clear and precise premises. The argument also relied of primary data. The researcher was collecting the information herself through the surveys and questionnaires. This method of collecting data is primary.

The three different hypotheses stated within this article were:

Watching TV increases fear of crime.

Frightened people will watch more crime on TV