Child sexual abuse Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Media reporting and its quality === Media reporting plays a crucial role in tackling the word-wide problem of child sexual abuse because it puts the issue on the public and political agenda.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Ischebeck |first1=Josephine |title=Child sexual abuse and the media |last2=Stelzmann |first2=Daniela |date=2022 |publisher=[[Nomos publishing house|Nomos]] |isbn=978-3-8487-6332-0 |edition=1st |location=Baden-Baden |oclc=1335407537}}</ref> Media reporting can even contribute to the exposure and criminal investigation of sexual abuse cases in institutions. One notorious example is the ''[[The Boston Globe|Boston Globe]]'' coverage of the [[Catholic Archdiocese of Boston sex abuse scandal|sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston]] for which the newspaper received a [[Pulitzer Prize for Public Service]] in 2003. Another award-winning example is the ''[[The Indianapolis Star|Indianapolis Star]]'' coverage of the [[USA Gymnastics sex abuse scandal]] in 2016. Media reporting can be very beneficial by giving survivors a voice and informing the public.{{citation needed|date=July 2022}} Media reporting can also violate the rights of abuse survivors and disseminate misleading and harmful messages. Content analyses of news reporting have revealed several quality issues such as a focus on sensationalized individual cases (so-called episodic framing) and neglect of thematic framing in the sense of contextualizing individual cases and pointing to the systematic problems that enable child sexual abuse.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Weatherred |first=Jane Long |date=2015 |title=Child sexual abuse and the media: A literature review |journal=Journal of Child Sexual Abuse |volume=24 |issue=1 |pages=16–34 |doi=10.1080/10538712.2015.976302 |issn=1053-8712 |pmid=25635896|s2cid=38230484 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Popović |first=Stjepka |date=2018 |title=Child sexual abuse news: A systematic review of content analysis studies |journal=Journal of Child Sexual Abuse |volume=27 |issue=7 |pages=752–777 |doi=10.1080/10538712.2018.1486935 |issn=1053-8712 |pmid=30040599|s2cid=51716256 }}</ref> When media reporting on child sexual abuse is investigated, usual methodological approaches are the media [[content analysis]] and the media quality analysis.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Döring |first1=Nicola |last2=Walter |first2=Roberto |date=2020 |title=Media coverage of child sexual abuse: A framework of issue-specific quality criteria |journal=Journal of Child Sexual Abuse |volume=29 |issue=4 |pages=393–412 |doi=10.1080/10538712.2019.1675841 |issn=1053-8712 |pmid=31697189|s2cid=207938189 }}</ref> Here it is important to not only analyze text but also documentary and stock photos commonly used in media that report about child sexual abuse. Research shows that myths and stereotypes about child sexual abuse are disseminated through text and images alike.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Döring |first=Nicola |title=Child Sexual Abuse and the Media |publisher=[[Nomos publishing house|Nomos]] |year=2022 |isbn=978-3-8487-6332-0 |editor-last=Stelzmann |editor-first=Daniela |edition=1st |pages=31–57 |chapter=Quality issues in media representations of child sexual abuse: Newspaper articles, stock photos, and YouTube videos |editor-last2=Ischebeck |editor-first2=Josephine}}</ref> Several checklists and guidelines for journalist have been published by violence prevention and journalism organizations to help improve the quality of news reporting on child sexual abuse.<ref>{{Cite web |last=INHOPE |title=Media guidelines for reporting on child sexual abuse |url=https://inhope.org/EN/articles/media-guidelines-for-reporting-on-child-sexual-abuse?locale=en |access-date=2022-07-15 |website=inhope.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Utah Department of Human Services |date=2022 |title=A journalist's guide to reporting on child abuse & neglect |url=https://dcfs.utah.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/March-2022-Journalists-Guide.pdf |access-date=2022-07-15 |archive-date=2022-07-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220715095411/https://dcfs.utah.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/March-2022-Journalists-Guide.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page