Media constructions of Indigenous women in sexual assault cases: reflections from Australia and Canada

Cripps, Kyllie

doi:10.1080/10345329.2020.1867039

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“…The symbolic power of criminal-legal recognition of gender-based violence is invaluable; however, these long-standing efforts to use law and criminal justice reform as a mechanism for addressing gender-based violence in Australia have persistently failed to adequately listen to survivors, advocates and activists about what gender-based violence is, and how it can be responded to and prevented (Ailwood et al 2023). Moreover, they fail to interrogate and challenge neocolonial attitudes and violence when it comes to justice (Deslandes et al 2022;Cunneen et al 2023;Cripps 2023). Non-criminal legal responses to gender-based violence, such as the use of restorative justice for domestic and family violence and sexual assault, have been considered as potential alternatives to addressing harm since the late 1990s, with strong support from Indigenous services and communities (Nancarrow 2006).…”

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“…Yet Indigenous scholars, activists and advocacy organisations are regularly silenced, overlooked and ignored in public debate about avenues for addressing gender-based violence (Moreton Robinson 2000;ALRC 2017;McGlade 2019;Carlson 2021;Deslandes et al 2022;Cripps 2023). Recent law reform commissions, such as the 2017 Australian Law Reform Commission's (ALRC) "Pathways to Justice" Inquiry and the 2020 Victorian Law Reform Commission's (VLRC) inquiry into 1 In Australia, the term "domestic and family violence" is preferred to "domestic violence" as it accounts for a range of harmful and violent behaviours in broader family and kinship networks rather than only violence that occurs between current or former domestic partners.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Gender-Based Violence and Carceral Feminism in Australia: Towards Decarceral Approaches

Loney-Howes,

Longbottom,

Fileborn

2024

Fem Leg Stud

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This article explores the limitations of criminal legal responses to gender-based violence in Australia, specifically sexual assault law reforms and the criminalisation of coercive control. We demonstrate that carceral horizons deployed to address gender-based violence cause further harm to survivors and overshadow diverse perceptions and practices of justice. We suggest that such an approach is inappropriate and dangerous in the Australian context, given the historical and enduring harms of colonisation and the extent to which the actors within and the structure of the criminal legal system perpetrate violence towards Indigenous survivors of gender-based violence. Drawing on insights from research on survivors’ justice needs, survivors’ experiences in the criminal legal system, and abolitionist, transformative, and Indigenous scholarship, we discuss the potential for alternative ways of conceptualising justice responses in the Australian context that move beyond and avoid further perpetuating the harms arising from criminal legal responses to gender-based violence.

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Gender-Based Violence and Carceral Feminism in Australia: Towards Decarceral Approaches

Loney-Howes,

Longbottom,

Fileborn

2024

Fem Leg Stud

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“…Echoes of the North American media coverage are salient, with Johnston noting that: “zeroing in on the tragedy of overdose deaths only among middle-class White youth misrepresents the nature of the crisis, which is actually most severe among Indigenous, unstably housed, and [the] middle-aged” (Johnston, 2020, p. 124). It is indeed common in Australian media for the suffering of First Nations people to be seen as “too routine or ordinary, and/or irrelevant to a largely white audience” (Cripps, 2021, p. 8). Media coverage that largely ignores the deaths of Indigenous people yet emphasises the deaths of non-Indigenous people as surprising builds on ongoing but evolving colonial narratives about how Aboriginal people are “destined to die” (Watego, 2021).…”

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Lives Worth Grieving: Differential Coverage of Overdose Deaths in Australian News Media (2015–2020)

Dertadian

Rance

2023

Contemporary Drug Problems

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This article explores the differential coverage of drug overdose death in three major Australian newspapers between 2015 and 2020. It outlines the number of articles, the types of voices, and emotional collectives drawn on in three types of overdose death stories: those related to injecting drug use, pharmaceuticals (largely opioids), and those that occurred at music festivals. Our analysis finds that in each newspaper festival deaths are reported on more than other types of overdose stories, even though deaths in the other categories represent significantly larger loss of life. Beyond the number of articles written about each type of overdose, our analysis pays attention to emotional collectives, such as pity, surprise, and grief, and how these constitute the overdose victim. We argue that the differential media treatment of overdose deaths—depending on substance involved, social circumstance—is intimately (if implicitly) linked to a differential valuing of human life. We explore the way people who die of an overdose exist on a spectrum, from those who are visible and valued subjects in media coverage (the grievable), to those who are abject and already lost (the ungrievable). Finally, our analysis finds that proximity to White and middle-class culture structures the way the lives of overdose victims are (re)produced as lives worth grieving in media coverage.

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“…As mentioned in a previous discussion section, scholars have also documented a lack of media coverage devoted to missing Indigenous women in particular (Cripps, 2021;Drache et al, 2016;Gilchrist, 2010), and Indigenous issues in general (Harding, 2005;. When the media does discuss Indigenous victims, they are often portrayed in a negative manner (Jiwani, 2009;Jiwani & Young, 2006).…”

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“…In fact, the primary argument made by one of the most notable modern social movements, Black Lives Matter, is that BIPOC lives are systematically devalued in comparison to White lives (White et al, 2021). In Canada, several researchers have criticized the type and amount of media attention devoted to missing and murdered Indigenous women (e.g., Cripps, 2021;Drache et al, 2016;Gilchrist, 2010). For instance, Gilchrist (2010) demonstrated that missing Indigenous women receive three and a half times less coverage as compared to missing White women, suggesting Indigenous victims are devalued in Canadian society.…”

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The effect of victim race on jurors’ perceptions of lethal use of force

Ewanation¹

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In recent years, a number of highly-publicized lethal police use of force (UoF) encounters have occurred in both Canada and the United States, sparking several social movements and causing public debate about officer accountability. The primary aim of this project is to increase our understanding of jurors' legal decision-making in trials involving police UoF by exploring what jurors discuss during deliberations in simulated trials and evaluating whether the race of the victim affects individual verdicts and deliberation content. Canadian jury eligible participants (N = 78) watched and listened to a fictional trial involving a police officer charged with manslaughter. The victim's race was manipulated to be either White or Indigenous. After rendering individual pre-deliberation verdicts, participants took part in a 60-minute deliberation session, then rendered individual post-deliberation verdicts. Study 1a investigated the relationship between victim race, jurors' perceived police legitimacy, and individual verdict decisions. Although victim race did not have a statistically significant effect on pre-deliberation verdicts, the odds of jurors rendering a guilty post-deliberation verdict was more than 16 times higher when the victim was White as opposed to Indigenous. Study 1b investigated how victim race and police legitimacy relate to the deliberation content of the juries. Analyses indicated that both of these variables play a significant role in jury deliberations. Specifically, jurors were significantly more likely to provide "anti-defendant" and "pro-prosecution" utterances when the victim was White, as compared to Indigenous. Additionally, jurors with negative perceptions of police were significantly more likely to utter "anti-defendant" statements. Overall, this study suggests that, contrary to the assumption of the Canadian legal system, victim race influences legal decision-making in trials involving officer UoF.

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Media constructions of Indigenous women in sexual assault cases: reflections from Australia and Canada

Cited by 15 publications

References 25 publications

Gender-Based Violence and Carceral Feminism in Australia: Towards Decarceral Approaches

Gender-Based Violence and Carceral Feminism in Australia: Towards Decarceral Approaches

Lives Worth Grieving: Differential Coverage of Overdose Deaths in Australian News Media (2015–2020)

The effect of victim race on jurors’ perceptions of lethal use of force

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