Ingen vill höra om ännu ett gängmord : En jämförande kvantitativ studie av mordfall, offer och gärningsmän i svenska true crime-poddar

Sammanfattning: Purpose: The purpose of this essay is to investigate the differences and similarities between public service and commercially driven true crime podcasts.  Research questions and hypothesis: 1.What type of murder cases are represented? 2.To which extent are ideal victims and ideal offenders a recurring theme in the podcast episodes?  2.1. To which extent are there patterns in the episodes based on ethnicity of the victim or the offender? 3. How is the representation of new and old cases in the podcast episodes? Hypothesis:  Our hypothesis is that there will be differences between public service and commercially driven podcasts: Public service will have a more varied content in types of murder cases, sex of the victim and offender and lastly what year the crime occured. There will be a greater width of content, where different motives get different amounts of space, where men and women both are included, and where the time span of when the crime occured will be broader.  Theories: ideal victim-theory, Stereotype Content Model, Moral Typecasting Theory, cultivation theory, media ethics Method: To carry through the study a quantitative analysis will be implemented. The analysis is made on a total of 200 Swedish true crime-podcast episodes, where 100 of those are published by public service and 100 are published by commercially driven podcasts.  Conclusion: After carrying through the study we can ascertain that there are differences between public service podcasts and commercially driven podcasts, where these differences can be linked to the different conditions under which the media types act. Also it can be concluded that there are themes in the episodes where ideal victims and ideal offenders get a bigger amount of space than non-ideal victims- and offenders.