Rape Myths in the Media: A Content Analysis of Local Newspaper Reporting in the United States

Sacks, Meghan; Ackerman, Alissa R.; Shlosberg, Amy

doi:10.1080/01639625.2017.1410608

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“…While not all rape catches media attention, those in the media sustains rape myths. In the United States, Sacks et.al [16] found that local media reporting "on sexual assault might directly reinforce some of the commonly known rape myths." Meanwhile, rape myths can also discourage reportage.…”

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Characterizing Rapists and Their Victims in Select Nigeria Newspapers

Tade¹,

Udechukwu²

2021

Psycho-Social Aspects of Human Sexuality and Ethics

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While offender and victim characterization offers clues to devising preventive strategies and victim therapy, existing studies in Nigeria are yet to capture this empirically. Using two national dailies, about 331 rape cases have been analyzed. The rapists were found to be of the age group 18-55 years. The victims' age has been reported to be between 1 and 20 years. Rape victims were mostly females (>90%) compared to males. Most of the rapists are labeled as familiar foes meaning, father, relatives, or neighbors. Third-party guardianship is mentioned as predatory.

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Characterizing Rapists and Their Victims in Select Nigeria Newspapers

Tade¹,

Udechukwu²

2021

Psycho-Social Aspects of Human Sexuality and Ethics

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“…Also, news consumers exposed to a sexual harassment case "are frequently left with little more than two conflicting verbal accounts-that of the accuser and that of the accused-as a basis for their decision" (Ask & Landström, 2010, p. 393). In this context, certain media portrayals may significantly influence public perceptions toward sexual harassment victims (e.g., Grauerholz & King, 1997;Sacks et al, 2018). More precisely, we theorized that temporal aspects are of particular importance in this context.…”

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“…In this context, it has been shown that certain media portrayals may not only play a crucial role regarding the public perception of sexual harassment but may also affect victim blaming (e.g., Dill et al, 2008;Dowler, 2006;Grauerholz & King, 1997;Sacks et al, 2018). More specifically, it has been shown that focusing on victim-specific aspects or behaviors such as mentioning that a victim consumed alcohol at a party and was then sexually harassed (Gravelin et al, 2019), or stating that a victim wore provocative clothing (Gravelin et al, 2019), or not mentioning that a victim physically resisted a harasser in a news report may substantially increase victim blaming (Van der Bruggen & Grubb, 2014).…”

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Sexual Harassment in Politics. News about Victims’ Delayed Sexual Harassment Accusations and Effects on Victim Blaming: A Mediation Model

Sikorski

Saumer

2020

Mass Communication and Society

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The #MeToo movement has restarted an extensive and worldwide debate about sexual harassment especially directed against women. When women publicly accuse an alleged perpetrator they often do so with a strong delay and frequently come forward with allegations years after a harassment occurred. Yet, we lack research on how news about delayed sexual harassment accusations affect victim blaming. Drawing from construal level theory and attribution theory, we experimentally tested how participants react to news about a victim's delayed accusation (harassment occurred years ago), nondelayed accusation (harassment occurred days ago), or accusations with no time cue. Findings showed that delayed accusations resulted in the attribution of negative motives toward the victim. Negative motives, in turn, increased victim blaming.

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“…Scholars like Abrar (2015), Doron and Raja (2015), Thomas and Kumar (2015), and Sikka (2016) have quoted this incident in their respective case studies. In rural India, many cases of gender-based violence go unreported because of various issued related to shaming, fear of retaliation, humiliation, and other personal reasons (Diverde, 2013;Sacks et al, 2018;Babu, 2019). Koonan (2019) in his studies mentioned about newspapers reports related to gender violence can act as a yardstick to measure the social development.…”

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“…Koonan (2019) in his studies mentioned about newspapers reports related to gender violence can act as a yardstick to measure the social development. Sacks et al (2018) has done a content analysis of local newspaper reporting in the United States in the context of sexual assaults using descriptive statistics and conducted a series of chi-square analyses.…”

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Assessment of Swachh Bharat Mission - Clean India Campaign’s Contribution in Combating Violence against Women

Khandelwal¹,

Tamboli²,

Madhup³

et al. 2020

IJGWS

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In this article, we present the results after assessing the Indian's Swachh Bharat Mission's (SBM) (aka Clean India Campaign) contribution in combating violence against women and girls while attending nature's call. Towards this, firstly we have used the publicly available data from National Crimes Records Bureau (NCRB -India) to identify the hotspot districts with highest crimes against women in the country. Various districts in West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh/Telangana, and Assam were top in the list of hotspots for gender based crimes; these districts were prioritized for investigation in this study. Context-driven web crawlers were developed and used to retrieve the reported crimes against women and girls from the district editions of electronic newspapers from 2010 till 2018. The results obtained from this web crawler were analyzed to determine the trend of gender-based sexual assaults before and after SBM implementation. It is observed that post SBM implementation, sexual assaults were reduced and the declining trend of crimes exhibited similar pattern for all the districts in the three states. The first dip in the trend has occurred during 2016 and consequently, there is reduction of crimes against women from 2017 onwards. The availability of sanitation infrastructure in the form of Independent Household Latrines under SBM's program should have influenced the reduction of practicing the open defecation to a certain extent, and the reduction in open defecation practice has helped in reducing the scope of sexual encounters during the course of routine sanitation needs. It is observed that in 2016, sexual assaults have downsized to 65 per cent and by the year 2018 the percentage dip in reduction of violence against women is more than 90 per cent.

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Rape Myths in the Media: A Content Analysis of Local Newspaper Reporting in the United States

Cited by 31 publications

References 28 publications

Characterizing Rapists and Their Victims in Select Nigeria Newspapers

Characterizing Rapists and Their Victims in Select Nigeria Newspapers

Sexual Harassment in Politics. News about Victims’ Delayed Sexual Harassment Accusations and Effects on Victim Blaming: A Mediation Model

Assessment of Swachh Bharat Mission - Clean India Campaign’s Contribution in Combating Violence against Women

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