“A rape was reported”: construction of crime in a university newspaper

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Acknowledgements: We would like to thank Brittany Hood and John Gonsler for their assistance in data collection. We would also like to thank Laura Plummer, Roger Levesque, and the anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions which have improved the manuscript greatly.

Asymmetrical gendered crime reporting and its influence on readers: A case study of Pakistani English newspapers

“…Present finding endorses recent study of Northcutt Bohmert et al. (2019) who showed through their empirical study that the responsibility of the suspect was mitigated using passive voice (25% in physical assault, 75% in rape news, 100% in sexual assault).…”

“…In places, it was considered a woman's fault to be victimised as Dawn reported, ' (she) was condemned by village assembly to be gang-raped' as it was her mistake and will to be wronged. The present study supports recent findings of Northcutt Bohmert et al. (2019) who analyzed 99 student newspaper crime stories from one academic year to investigate how perpetrators and victims were framed, and found higher victim blaming levels for female victims.…”

“…The systematic choice was similar to the earlier study of Frazer and Miller (2009) in that the use of passive structure was more frequent for male perpetrators. Northcutt Bohmert et al. (2019) found that the responsibility of the suspect was moderated through the use of passive voice, and they found it frequently used more in sexual assaults and rape cases (100% and 75% respectively) than in physical assaults news (25%).…”

“…(2019) found that the responsibility of the suspect was moderated through the use of passive voice, and they found it frequently used more in sexual assaults and rape cases (100% and 75% respectively) than in physical assaults news (25%). The studies reviewed further exhibit how the use of voice may contribute to responsivity attribution when men were perpetrators and women were victims ( Northcutt Bohmert et al., 2019 ).…”

Los mitos de la violación en el caso de 'La Manada'. Una crítica a la división patriarcal público / privado

“…La construcción de la imagen de los miembros de 'La Manada' se realiza haciendo alusión a su barrio de origen y a su condición socioeconómica, también en la televisión pública (La Mañana, 26 de abril de 2018). Esta descripción es perjudicial, porque si se establece una caricatura de los condenados ligada a factores de exclusión social, los varones comunes desaparecen de la narrativa (Nilsson, 2019;Bohmert, Allison & Ducate, 2019) y se difumina la explicación de la violencia sexual contra las mujeres.…”