Perpetration, victimhood and blame: Australian newspaper representations of domestic violence, 2000-2020

Title: Perpetration, victimhood and blame: Australian newspaper representations of domestic violence, 2000-2020
Creator: Karageorgos, Effie; Boyle, Amy; Pender, Patricia; Cook, Julia
Relation: Violence Against Women Vol. 39, Issue 9, p. 2148-2173
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10778012231166401
Publisher: Sage
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2024
Description: 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
Subject: Australia; domestic violence; perpetrators; newspapers; victims; SDG 5; SDG 16; Sustainable Development Goals
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1505246
Identifier: uon:55653
Identifier: ISSN:1077-8012
Rights: x
Language: eng
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