Football and Sexual Crime, from the Courtroom to the Newsroom Transforming Narratives /

• Main Author: Waterhouse-Watson, Deb (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Journalism.; Culture.; Australasia.; Sports-Sociological aspects.; Australasian Culture.; Sociology of Sport and Leisure.

This book interrogates the process of court reporting on rape and other sexual crime cases involving Australian footballers. At the intersection of sport, gender, media and the law, it uncovers the story behind rape myths and stereotypes in media. This book analyses newspaper reporting alongside tra...