The Dark Figure of Disablist Violence

Thorneycroft, Ryan; Asquith, Nicole L.

doi:10.1111/hojo.12147

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“…We acknowledge that the scarce reporting of actual cases where sharenting actually led to the victimisation of minors does not imply that far more crimes or otherwise harmful activities linked to sharenting do not occur. Since sharenting generally happens in domestic settings and it is essentially a digital activity, it is likely that significant underreporting occurs (in line with Mihalic and Elliott 1997; Lavorgna, 2020; Martellozzo, 2017; Thorneycroft and Asquith, 2015).…”

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Online sharenting: Identifying existing vulnerabilities and demystifying media reported crime risks

Lavorgna

Ugwudike

Tartari

2023

Crime, Media, Culture

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Sharenting – the digital sharing of sensitive information of minors by parents or guardians – has not yet been investigated from a criminological perspective. However, there are reported concerns regarding its criminogenic potential amidst fast-growing media interest in sharenting practices, particularly in relation to the perceived crime risks. This article offers an exploratory analysis of cases where such practices led to the victimisation of minors, evidencing the gap between media reports about crime risks and actual victimisation. The paper also demonstrates that sharenting is a more complex phenomenon than generally recognised. By exploring these issues, the paper advances criminological understanding of the practice and demonstrates the divergences between media-reported crime risks and victimisation associated with sharenting. Although the paper highlights media exaggerations of such crime victimisation which can heighten public fear and anxiety, the article also provides new insights on the nature of actual victimisation, to raise awareness and aid preventative intervention.

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Online sharenting: Identifying existing vulnerabilities and demystifying media reported crime risks

Lavorgna

Ugwudike

Tartari

2023

Crime, Media, Culture

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“…Globálně tak DTČN zůstávají těmi "celofánovými zločiny", za které je měl Sherry [2003: 1] před téměř dvaceti lety: "Lidé jimi procházejí, hledí skrze ně, a přesto o nich nevědí." 9 Identifikováno bylo množství specifických důvodů neoznamování DTČN [Thorneycroft, Asquith 2015;Sin 2013]. Lidé s disabilitou obecně čelí bariérám v jednání s policií, ať už jde o nepřístupnost policejních stanic, nedostupnost tlumočníků do znakového jazyka, nesrozumitelnost oznamovacího procesu nebo o nízké dovednosti policistů jednat s lidmi s tělesným znevýhodněním.…”

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Violence, Bias and People with Disabilities: An Introduction to Disablist Hate Crime Research

Walach¹

2024

Czech Sociological Review

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Violence against disabled people has recently been recognised as an important, albeit neglected research topic. Drawing attention to violence motivated by anti-disability bias, this article offers an introduction to research on disablist hate crime. First, it presents a conceptualisation of hate crime and explains such concepts as disablism and ableism. Second, it discusses the concept of disability/disablist hate crime and analyses four areas that reflect the multifaceted nature of disability hate crime research and the social applications of the concept, ranging from conceptual issues to empirical findings, to political implications. These issues are:(1) vulnerability (a strongly criticised belief that people with disabilities are susceptible to victimisation because of 'their' disabilities); ( 2) invisibility (the under-representation of disablist violence in police statistics); (3) risk (individual and social factors that produce situational vulnerabilities to disablist hate crime); and (4) intervention (measures suggested to prevent disablist hate crime, including the hate crime legislation). Possible future directions of research are outlined in the conclusion.

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“…Concerns were also raised by members of new and emerging communities and by those for whom English was not the first language, that cultural and linguistic barriers prevented them from reporting. These practical issues have been highlighted elsewhere in studies on disability-related harassment (Quarmby, 2008;Thorneycroft and Asquith, 2015); identity theft victimisation (Cross et al, 2016;Reyns and Randa, 2015); and sexual violence (Taylor and Gassner, 2010). Equally, the level of courage, patience and resilience needed in order to share harrowing experiences with an unfamiliar, and potentially sceptical third-party was something that participants believed was commonly overlooked by practitioners, and thus created further resistance to reporting.…”

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Layers of resistance: Understanding decision-making processes in relation to crime reporting

Hardy

2019

International Review of Victimology

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Under-reporting has been a longstanding problem for criminal justice agencies, which masks the true scale of crime taking place and prevents victims from accessing justice and support. Using empirical evidence collected from more than 2,000 victims who came from different backgrounds and who had experienced different forms of crimes, this article proposes a new theoretic model to enhance our understanding of under-reporting. This model highlights that victim decision-making is influenced by structural, social, situational and individual barriers which interact symbiotically to create layers of resistance to reporting. The article concludes by considering what steps academics, policy-makers and practitioners can take to dismantle these barriers and to improve reporting rates.

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The Dark Figure of Disablist Violence

Cited by 19 publications

References 27 publications

Online sharenting: Identifying existing vulnerabilities and demystifying media reported crime risks

Online sharenting: Identifying existing vulnerabilities and demystifying media reported crime risks

Violence, Bias and People with Disabilities: An Introduction to Disablist Hate Crime Research

Layers of resistance: Understanding decision-making processes in relation to crime reporting

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