Press coverage of same-sex domestic violence cases in Spain

Abstract

A Carratalá (2016): "Press coverage of same-sex domestic violence cases in Spain". Revista Latina de Comunicación Social, 71, pp. 40 Conclusions. The episodic and sensationalist coverage, as well as the categorisation of cases of violence in same-sex couples as crimes of passion show that intra-gender violence is not addressed, for the time being, as a social problem but rather as a private matter.

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