Grover, Christopher and Soothill, Keith (1996) Ethnicity, the search for rapists and the press. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 19 (3). pp. 568-584. ISSN 1466-4356
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Media reporting of rape continues to provoke concern. This article focuses on the press reporting of the discovery and search for alleged rapists. On examining nine British newspapers for one complete year (1992), a serious distortion in the media reporting of ethnicity emerges at this early stage of the criminal process. While there is an over‐representation of minority ethnic men accused of rape coming to the notice of the police, the cases identified as involving minority ethnic (particularly black) men as assailants, are much more likely to be reported widely. The distortion is then intensified by associating minority ethnic (and again particularly, black men) with certain types of rape. However, there are important differences between newspapers in their coverage. Furthermore, while media coverage of the search for rapists is a matter of concern, it also needs to be seen as part of the wider process of the social construction of rapists. Nevertheless, the conclusion is that the media coverage of rape tends to distort in ways which may well exacerbate hostility against minority ethnic groups.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Journal or Publication Title: | Ethnic and Racial Studies |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Britain ; Rape ; Ethnicity ; Racism ; Media ; Policy |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) |
| Departments: | Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences > Applied Social Science |
| ID Code: | 59065 |
| Deposited By: | ep_importer_pure |
| Deposited On: | 09 Oct 2012 16:08 |
| Refereed?: | Yes |
| Published?: | Published |
| Last Modified: | 09 Oct 2012 16:08 |
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| URI: | http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/59065 |
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