Teenagers as Victims in the Press |
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| Authors: | Gunvor Andersson Tommy Lundström |
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| Affiliation: | 1. School of Social Work, Lund University, Lund, Sweden;2. Department of Social Work, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden*Tommy Lundstr?m, Department of Social Work, Stockholm University, S‐106 91 Stockholm, Sweden.
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| Abstract: | Research into press reporting on young people has tended to concentrate on young people as offenders. In contrast, this article focuses on press coverage of teenagers as victims. Reports in two Swedish newspapers (a morning broadsheet and an evening tabloid) were studied over a period of four months and subjected to a qualitative analysis of discourse on teenagers as victims of various forms of violence and ill‐treatment. It was found that danger and threats to the teenagers were seen as gendered, and as emanating from their own age group and from outside the home and family. The class background of the victims was not salient and child welfare issues were seldom mentioned. Copyright © 2006 The Author(s). Journal compilation © National Children's Bureau. |
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