Abstract
In recent years, public works have been sharply reduced in Japan. One reason of the reduction is considered to be the negative impression on the construction industry. The people’s consciousness receives lots of influence of mass media. Previous researches pointed out the criticism in the newspaper report to the public works. On the other hand, some medias sometimes write detailed job title of “construction workers” instead of general description like “office workers” when a suspect is construction worker. This unfair description will bring indirectly negative impression to the construction industry. This study analyzed the status of the suspect's occupation in the newspapers report of atrocious crime. As a result, many construction workers were reported as suspect of atrocious crime in newspapers, but it seems to be due to the huge number of employee of the construction industry. In other words, the result of this research suggested that there was no bias against the construction industry in the newspaper reports about atrocious crime.
