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Pandemic Communications Beyond Risk and Crisis: A Change of Course for Law Enforcement During COVID-19

Sarah Young Erasmus University Rotterdam

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COVID-19 contributed to what we know about pandemic communications, typically framed through risk and crisis. Risk and crisis as frameworks are limited, however, and this article argues that there are differences between primary and secondary pandemic communications, illustrated in this study by the typically change-adverse law enforcement community (LEC) that during COVID-19 not only had to control risk but also had to change their course on other nonrisk and crisis communications practices.

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Technical Communication Quarterly
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2025-01-02
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10.1080/10572252.2024.2352102
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