'It Would be Better for the Newspapers to Call a Spade a Spade': the British Press and Child Sexual Abuse, c. 1918-90
'It Would be Better for the Newspapers to Call a Spade a Spade': the British Press and Child Sexual Abuse, c. 1918-90
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“报纸最好实话实说”：英国媒体和儿童性虐待，c。
DOI：
10.1093/hwj/dbz006
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发表时间：
2019
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1
通讯作者：
Bingham A
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作者：
Bingham A
这篇文章提供了第一个严格的调查，在二十世纪的英国新闻报道，我们现在称之为“儿童性虐待”。它认为，虐待总是可见的，但它在新闻议程上的位置发生了重大变化。1918年后，新闻报道主要限于简短、委婉的法庭诉讼报道。在20世纪50年代和60年代，报道变得更加明确，但虐待一再与“同性恋”或其他“异常”混为一谈。直到20世纪70年代中期，“虐待儿童”才被概念化为一个独特的“社会问题”，并成为媒体关于宽容和社会变革的辩论中的一个关键问题。然而，即使虐待登上了头条，我们也可以看到，新闻界的注意力仅限于虐待的某些表现形式，而维持虐待的文化也没有得到适当的询问。
This article provides the first rigorous survey of coverage in the twentieth-century British press of what we now call ‘child sexual abuse’. It argues that abuse was always visible, but its place on the press agenda changed significantly. After 1918, coverage was mainly restricted to brief, euphemistic reports of court proceedings. During the 1950s and 1960s, reporting became more explicit, but abuse was repeatedly conflated with ‘homosexuality’ or other ‘deviancy’. Only from the mid 1970s was ‘child abuse’ conceptualized as a distinctive ‘social problem’, and it became a key issue in press debates about permissiveness and social change. Even as abuse hit the headlines, however, we can see that the press’s attention was restricted to certain manifestations of it, and the cultures sustaining it were not properly interrogated.