Sexual harassment and violence at Australian music festivals: Reporting practices and experiences of festival attendees

Despite the well-documented under-reporting of sexual violence, to date, no research has considered reporting practices within the specific context of music festivals. Drawing on 16 in-depth interviews with victim-survivors, this article examines survivors’ experiences of (non)reporting sexual viole...

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Authors: Fileborn, Bianca (Author) ; Wadds, Phillip (Author) ; Tomsen, Stephen (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2020
In: The Australian and New Zealand journal of criminology
Year: 2020, Volume: 53, Issue: 2, Pages: 194-212
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Keywords:
Festivals
Policing
Reporting
Sexual Harassment
Sexual Violence
Violence Prevention
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Summary:Despite the well-documented under-reporting of sexual violence, to date, no research has considered reporting practices within the specific context of music festivals. Drawing on 16 in-depth interviews with victim-survivors, this article examines survivors’ experiences of (non)reporting sexual violence in festival settings. We argue that while some barriers to reporting are shared across contexts, others play out in context-specific ways. Our research argues that the liberal, often transgressive culture of music festivals, combined with site-specific policing practices and spatial context, creates unique impediments to reporting with particular implications in responding to, and aiming to prevent, sexual violence at music festivals.
ISSN:1837-9273
DOI:10.1177/0004865820903777