RT Article
T1 Killings in context: an analysis of the news framing of femicide
JF Human rights review
VO 19
IS 2
SP 211
OP 228
A1 Bouzerdan, Camelia
A1 Whitten-Woodring, Jenifer
A2 Whitten-Woodring, Jenifer
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1028665075
AB While attacks against members of the LGBT community are increasingly covered as hate crimes and are widely viewed as a form of repression, attacks on women are almost never covered as violations of human rights. We propose that until violence against women is recognized as a form of repression and a threat to the physical security of women, we cannot expect much to be done to prevent it. We posit that policies aimed at preventing violence against women are unlikely to come about unless this abstract concept is connected, through a connection frame, to concrete crimes against women. We conducted a framing analysis of news coverage of all confirmed femicides in Massachusetts in 2013 and find that while journalists have the potential to draw these connection frames, they seldom put these killings in the context of violations of women’s rights.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 227-228
K1 Frame Connections
K1 News Coverage
K1 Hate Crimes
K1 Concrete Crime
K1 Intimate Femicide
DO 10.1007/s12142-018-0497-3