RT Article
T1 Perpetration, Victimhood, and Blame: Australian Newspaper Representations of Domestic Violence, 2000–2020
JF Violence against women
VO 30
IS 9
SP 2148
OP 2173
A1 Karageorgos, Effie
A2 Boyle, Amy
A2 Pender, Patricia
A2 Cook, Julia
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1891167286
AB 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.
K1 Victims
K1 Newspapers
K1 Perpetrators
K1 Domestic Violence
K1 Australia
DO 10.1177/10778012231166401