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Teenagers as victims in the press

Author

Summary, in English

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.

Publishing year

2007

Language

English

Pages

175-188

Publication/Series

Children & Society

Volume

21

Issue

3

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Topic

  • Social Work

Status

Published

Research group

  • Den sociala barnavården

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0951-0605