Honors Program
Honors in Criminal Justice and Criminology
Date of Award
5-2022
Thesis Professor(s)
Dustin Osborne
Thesis Professor Department
Criminal Justice and Criminology
Thesis Reader(s)
Bradley Edwards
Abstract
There are many ways that people can form an opinion about law enforcement even if they have had a personal interaction with someone who works in the field. This idea has always been interesting as there needs to be some type of understanding when it comes to this certain viewpoint. There can be many factors that result in having a certain perspective on law enforcement in general like their background growing up, hearsay from close relatives, friends, and whatever they have seen up close in person. This study is going to aim at a specific area of how people view law enforcement from being exposed to certain types of movies, television shows, and news outlets. This idea has been discussed but it does not really dominate too much of the political arena. This study is designed to examine the perceptions of college students, good or bad, in regard to what they were exposed to growing up watching on television that included law enforcement. Data were obtained via surveys that were given out to 104 students at East Tennessee State University. Analysis revealed that there was no significant relationship between the types of media that the college students watched that shaped their current perceptions of policing.
Publisher
East Tennessee State University
Document Type
Honors Thesis - Open Access
Creative Commons License
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Recommended Citation
Lyon, Joseph, "College Students’ Perception of Law Enforcement" (2022). Undergraduate Honors Theses. Paper 727. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/727
Copyright
Copyright by the authors.