Investigating sex offending representation among politicians through Twitter

Sex violence is a sensitive topic that provokes public debate, due in part to the influential role of the media in taking crime cases out of the courts to the general public. This has led to a punitive attitude toward sex-offenders that has fostered the view of ‘once a sex-offender, always a sex-off...

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Authors: Veggi, Sara (Author) ; Zara, Georgia (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2023
In: The journal of forensic psychiatry & psychology
Year: 2023, Volume: 34, Issue: 1, Pages: 131-141
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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