Skip to main content skip navigation
  • Account
    • Login
    • Manage
  • Subscribe
    • JUSTINFO
    • Register
  • Shopping Cart
  • Contact Us
    • Email
    • Feedback
    • Chat
    • Phone or Mail
  • Site Help
National Criminal Justice Reference Service
Office of Justice Programs header with links to bureaus/offices: BJA, BJS, NIJ, OJJDP, OVC, SMART Office of Justice Programs BJA BJS NIJ OJJDP OVC SMART Office of Justice Programs
Advanced Search  Search Help
    Browse By Topics  down arrow
  • A–Z Topics
  • Corrections
  • Courts
  • Crime
  • Crime Prevention
  • Drugs
  • Justice System
  • Juvenile Justice
  • Law Enforcement
  • Victims
CrimeSolutions
Add your conference to our Justice Events calendar
  • ABOUT NCJRS
  • OJP PUBLICATIONS
  • LIBRARY
  • SEARCH Q & A
  • GRANTS & FUNDING
  • JUSTICE EVENTS
Home / Publications / NCJRS Abstract

PUBLICATIONS

Register for Latest Research

Stay Informed
Register with NCJRS to receive NCJRS's biweekly e-newsletter JUSTINFO and additional periodic emails from NCJRS and the NCJRS federal sponsors that highlight the latest research published or sponsored by the Office of Justice Programs.

NCJRS Abstract

The document referenced below is part of the NCJRS Virtual Library collection. To conduct further searches of the collection, visit the Virtual Library. See the Obtain Documents page for direction on how to access resources online, via mail, through interlibrary loans, or in a local library.

1 record(s) found

 

NCJ Number: 150882 Find in a Library
Title: Ending an American Deadlock: The First Amendment and the Dutch Model for Managing Media Violence
Author(s): D K Renner
Date Published: 1994
Annotation: The Dutch model for managing media violence is discussed.
Abstract: This essay argues that the introduction of the proposed 500-channel Information Superhighway offers the opportunity to end the deadlock between citizen concerns and judicial obstructions to legislation, increasing public accountability for media content without jeopardizing American freedoms. It further contends that the risk of harm to society from media violence creates a compelling public interest sufficient to justify overriding some First Amendment barriers to legislative action, providing the remedies are structural instead of content-directed. The Dutch model presents such a structural alternative by establishing programming authority in nongovernmental citizens' associations that have a greater stake in social concerns than the business organizations that were granted programming authority in the United States. The expanded switching and channel capacity of the proposed Information Superhighway makes it possible to accommodate both American advertiser-driven programming and programming from diverse religious and secular associations that support the needs of society more directly, the way programming does in the Netherlands. The author contends that Information Superhighway legislation can be passed that builds greater pluralism and public accountability into the structure of ownership -- legislation that would be sustainable in the courts. The essay's discussion is supported by media systems analysis, which views the State's conferral of ownership and control of media technologies as in itself an intervention in the political communication process, and by revisionist broadcast history that has deepened the understanding of communication policy formation in the United States. The author urges that the engagement of nonindustry constituencies is essential. The first step toward reclaiming communication policy issues for the political realm is the recognition that the prevailing First Amendment dialectic, which has largely disabled citizen involvement in the legislative process -- but has not disabled industry lobbying -- is historically conditioned, archaic, and increasingly vulnerable. Footnotes
Main Term(s): Media violence
Index Term(s): Freedom of speech; Violence on television; World criminology
Sponsoring Agency: Hope College
Holland, MI 49423
Corporate Author: Hope College
United States of America
Page Count: 18
Format: Document
Type: Conference Material
Language: English
Country: United States of America
Note: This paper was presented at the International Conference on Violence in the Media: Prospects for Change, held on October 3-4, 1994, in New York City. The conference was sponsored by St. John's University.
To cite this abstract, use the following link:
http://www.ncjrs.gov/App/publications/abstract.aspx?ID=150882

*A link to the full-text document is provided whenever possible. For documents not available online, a link to the publisher's website is provided. Tell us how you use the NCJRS Library and Abstracts Database - send us your feedback.




Find in a Library

You have clicked Find in a Library. A title search of WorldCat, the world's largest library network, will start when you click "Continue." Here you will be able to learn if libraries in your community have the document you need. The results will open in a new browser and your NCJRS session will remain active for 30 minutes. Learn More.

You have selected:

This article appears in

In WorldCat, verify that the library you select has the specific journal volume and issue in which the article appears. Learn How.

Continue to WorldCat

You are about to access WorldCat, NCJRS takes no responsibility for and exercises no control over the WorldCat site.

 
Office of Justice Programs Facebook Page  Twitter Page
  • Bureau of Justice Assistance Facebook Page Twitter Page
  • Bureau of Justice Statistics Twitter Page
  • National Institute of Justice Facebook Page Twitter Page
  • Office for Victims of Crime Facebook Page Twitter Page
  • Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Facebook Page Twitter Page
  • Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking Facebook Page Twitter Page
Contact Us | Feedback | Site Map
Freedom of Information Act | Privacy Statement | Legal Policies and Disclaimers
USA.gov | CrimeSolutions
Department of Justice | Office of Justice Programs