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- Title
Perpetration, Victimhood, and Blame: Australian Newspaper Representations of Domestic Violence, 2000–2020.
- Authors
Karageorgos, Effie; Boyle, Amy; Pender, Patricia; Cook, Julia
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; VICTIMS; SUBSTANCE abuse; THEFT; PREJUDICES; JEALOUSY; AUSTRALIANS; CONTENT analysis; NEWSPAPERS; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; DISCOURSE analysis; SOCIAL attitudes; CHARACTER; DOMESTIC violence; FRAUD; GENDER-based violence
- Publication
Violence Against Women, 2024, Vol 30, Issue 9, p2148
- ISSN
1077-8012
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/10778012231166401