Filicide, journalism and the ‘disempowered man’ in three Australian cases 2010–2016
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7478933 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Janine Little (0000-0001-5419-9367, Deakin University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1450-1466 |
| Publication date | 2018-11-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journalism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-8849 • E-ISSN: 1741-3001 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1464884918809739 |
| OpenAlex | W2900377162 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 30 |
How can journalism about parents killing their children improve public understanding of the factors influencing these filicide perpetrators? Three Australian cases occurring between 2010 and 2016 focus this question on stepfathers and foster fathers; a group recognised by international filicide research as of high risk for filicide. I consider questions of gender and masculine subjectivity in relation to Australian media coverage of filicide that involves these father figures so that a ‘disempowered man’, a figure introduced in previous work by Little and Tyson, is seen at the centre of journalism about filicide. The purpose of this study is to highlight the need to differentiate between this representational subject as an ideological construct of journalism about lethal family violence, and the perpetrators’ more fragmented and complex lives and social circumstances. It asks how the presence of a ‘disempowered man’ in media representation of filicide signals wider assumptions about appropriate gender role performance that need to be more fully accounted for and addressed as part of improving public understanding of the crime
Construct (python library · Criminology · Epistemology · Ideology · Journalism · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Relation (database · Representation (politics · Sociology · Subject (documents · Subjectivity · Child Abuse and Trauma · Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Psychology · Gender Studies · Law · Social Psychology
Critical discourse analysis
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Media and Crime
Signification, representation, ideology
Newspaper Portrayals of Child Abuse
It Could Happen to You”
Foster and Adopted Children Who Die From Filicide
Family violence happens to everybody’
Principles of Critical Discourse Analysis
Who Kills Children? Re-Examining the Evidence
Mad or Bad
The Global Journalist in the Twenty-First Century
The Handbook of Journalism Studies
Journalists as interpretive communities
Child abuse in England and Wales 2003–2013
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Performative Acts and Gender Constitution
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |