“…Despite the importance of discursive representation in news reporting for the creation of public consensus about a phenomenon (Meyers, 1996;van Dijk, 1988van Dijk, , 1993a, apart from a study looking at three Swedish newspapers during 2012 (Nationellt Centrum för Kvinnofrid [NCK] & Uppsala University, 2014), limited academic attention has been paid to aggregated representation of IPVAW in Swedish news media. Nevertheless, international research on the representation of IPVAW in news reports has pointed to problematic practices including tendencies toward describing individual aggressors with an emphasis on their positive characteristics, as violent actions have tended toward being excused or justified, or as deviant and different from the majority population (Fairbairn & Dawson, 2013;Leung, 2019;Lloyd & Ramon, 2017;Meyers, 1996;Pepin, 2016;Richards et al, 2014;Venäläinen, 2016). Patterns of victim-blaming, through which the cause of IPVAW is sought in the individual victim's behavior or characteristics, and of the construction of mutual responsibility for IPVAW, have also been observed (Fairbairn & Dawson, 2013;Hernández, 2018;Leung, 2019;Lloyd & Ramon, 2017;Meyers, 1996;Pepin, 2016;Venäläinen, 2016).…”