Ideal Victims and Monstrous Offenders: How the News Media Represent Sexual Predators
Ideal Victims and Monstrous Offenders: How the News Media Represent Sexual Predators
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理想的受害者和可怕的罪犯：新闻媒体如何描述性掠夺者
DOI：
10.1177/2378023118802512
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发表时间：
2018
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影响因子：
4.5
通讯作者：
Rebecca Dibennardo
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作者：
Rebecca Dibennardo
本文通过对1990年至2015年期间发表的323篇《洛杉矶时报》文章的内容分析，探讨新闻报道如何代表性掠夺者受害者和罪犯，以研究这些叙事如何构建性掠夺者的形象。结果表明，性掠夺的代表性年龄和性别：关于儿童受害者的故事包括更多的性暴力，暴力的图形描述，更多的男性受害者，和老年罪犯。文章将儿童受害者作为一种修辞工具，强调犯罪者的“掠夺”性质，并为对性掠夺者的报复性暴力或严厉的法律的惩罚辩护。关于成年受害者的叙述主要集中在妇女身上，认为她们对自己的受害负有责任，并尽量减少她们相对于儿童受害者的重要性。这种报道的累积效应缩小了受害者和暴力的代表性，为社会和法律的掠夺者模板提供了关键动力。
Drawing on content analysis of 323 Los Angeles Times articles published between 1990 and 2015, this article examines how news reports represent sexual predator victims and offenders in order to examine how such narratives construct images of the sexual predatory. Results demonstrate that representations of the sexually predatory are aged and gendered: stories about child victims encompass more sexual violence, graphic descriptions of that violence, more male victims, and older offenders. Articles use child victims as a rhetorical tool to emphasize the “predatory” nature of offenders and justify retributory violence or harsh legal punishment against sexual predators. Narratives about adult victims focus mainly on women, framing them as responsible for their victimization and minimizing their importance relative to child victims. The cumulative effect of this coverage narrows representations of victims and violence, contributing key dynamics to both the social and legal predator template.