RT Article
T1 Sexual harassment and violence at Australian music festivals: Reporting practices and experiences of festival attendees
JF The Australian and New Zealand journal of criminology
VO 53
IS 2
SP 194
OP 212
A1 Fileborn, Bianca
A2 Wadds, Phillip
A2 Tomsen, Stephen
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1782043772
AB 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.
K1 Festivals
K1 Policing
K1 Reporting
K1 Sexual Harassment
K1 Sexual Violence
K1 Violence Prevention
DO 10.1177/0004865820903777