Femicide and GBV Collections

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This is a collection of theses and one dataset produced by Nechama Brodie around Femicide.

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    'Credible' child perpetrators: A critical discourse analysis of South African juvenile murderers
    (2019) Masuku, Kwanele
    Constructions of violence constrain women and children to victims and men to perpetrators, and imply that children are, at all times pure, innocent and, vulnerable. As such, child perpetrated crimes contradict these normative constructions, thus rendering child perpetrators inconceivable. The aim of this research was thus to identify resistance discourse that oppose these normative constructions of violence. This was achieved by interviewing incarcerated juvenile-offenders from juvenile correctional centres in South Africa. After the interviews were transcribed, the transcripts were subjected to Parker’s (1992, 2004) critical discourse analysis. The findings illustrate how normative constructions of childhood and violence render child perpetrators inconceivable. Additionally, the analysis surfaced resistance discourse which challenge normative constructions of childhood and violence, and provide counter-knowledge on violence and crime within South Africa.
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    Using mixed-method approaches to provide new insights into media coverage of femicide
    (2019) Brodie, Nechama R.
    South Africa has a femicide rate that is six times the world average. Over 2,500 women aged 14 years or older are murdered every year, the majority of these women killed by an intimate partner. Despite the prevalence of femicide, less than 20% of these murders are ever reported in South African news media. Studies on news-media coverage of femicide reveal a subjective and obscure process of media selection and exclusion, which contribute to an archive of crime reporting that is not reflective of actual crime rates and which actively distort the nature and frequency of certain types of crime. This influences public perceptions and fear of violent crime, including notions of who is a suspect and who is most at risk. This study uses mixed-method approaches to document and analyse the content and extent of commercial news media coverage of femicides that took place in South Africa during the 2012/2013 crime reporting year, through an original media database listing 408 femicide victims associated with 5,778 press articles. Victim and incident information is compared with epidemiological and statistical data, including mortuary-based studies and police crime statistics. Media data is explored through various media effects models, including a mixedmethods framing analysis, and is also examined by title, and by language. These analyses reveal how media constructs and depicts particular notions of gender, violence, race, and crime in South Africa.
These data are sensitive. This dataset contains records of deaths, torture, rape and sexual assault. Please be aware of the fact, that this might be disturbing. We encourage you to reuse this data in the public interest. We will assist you in the reuse of this data where possible. Please cite "Nechama Brodie (2019) Femicide in South African news media (2012/2013). A thesis submitted 15 March 2019 see http://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/handle/10539/29294 Please contact Nechama.Brodie@wits.ac.za to discuss the data and for more details regarding this research.