A remote island in the South Atlantic, St. Helena, was introduced to live TV for the first time in 1995. Before this, the resident's only televisual experience had been through video. The community is a small homogeneous one which has made it possible fo "...this provacative, naturalistic study by a multidisciplinary trio of British scholars seriously challenges the prevailing American dogma....Broadcast Television offers compelling documentation for this conditional percept that has the potential to mitigate television's culpability by arguing that the atmosphere of an uncoordinated neighborhood watch on the island tempered the lure to indulge in antisocial acts."—Journal of Communication