Modelos delincuenciales y narrativas mediáticas sobre el delito. Los diarios argentinos Clarín y Crónica durante el período 1976-1979

Abstract

This article reviews some of the issues tackled in a previous study, which looked at how crime news were constructed by the print press during the last civic-military dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983). Focusing on the 1976-1979 period, our goal is to reveal and explain the criminal models and key arguments developed by two nationally circulated Argentine newspapers –Clarin and Cronica– in view of the methods of repression and absolute social control then in practice. Our results show that three criminal models coexisted on the pages of these newspapers, and that these models, in turn, led to the development of two opposing but complementary narratives that favored a context of strict vigilance.