Perpetration, victimhood, and blame : Effie Karageorgos, Amy Boyle, Patricia Pender and Julia Cook Australian newspaper representations of domestic violence, 2000–2020
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ArticleSeries: Violence Againat WomenPublication details: Sage, 2023Subject(s): Online resources:
In: Violence Against Women, 2023, First published online, 3 April 2023Summary: Newspaper media plays a significant role in forming a public understanding of domestic violence. This article analyses 554 articles from 24 newspapers across Australian states and territories published between 2000 and 2020 that describe specific instances of domestic violence. It examines whether such violence is framed as a systemic issue or as a collection of individual events, as well as how such representations of perpetrators and victims displace both “blame” and “victimhood.” Although positive aspects of reporting can be observed, the tendency within newspaper articles to blur distinctions between perpetrators and victims distorts the true scale of domestic violence in Australia. (Authors' abstract). Record #8090
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Violence Against Women, 2023, First published online, 3 April 2023
Newspaper media plays a significant role in forming a public understanding of domestic violence. This article analyses 554 articles from 24 newspapers across Australian states and territories published between 2000 and 2020 that describe specific instances of domestic violence. It examines whether such violence is framed as a systemic issue or as a collection of individual events, as well as how such representations of perpetrators and victims displace both “blame” and “victimhood.” Although positive aspects of reporting can be observed, the tendency within newspaper articles to blur distinctions between perpetrators and victims distorts the true scale of domestic violence in Australia. (Authors' abstract). Record #8090