Representations of vulnerability, innocence and evil in the murder of a disabled person
| Autor: | Ian Mathews |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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030506 rehabilitation
Health (social science) L340 Disability in Society media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Vulnerability 050301 education General Social Sciences Innocence Disabled people Criminology 03 medical and health sciences General Health Professions Learning disability medicine Mainstream Sociology medicine.symptom 0305 other medical science 0503 education Disadvantage media_common |
| Popis: | This article uses the murder of a young man with learning disabilities as a case study to comment on the representations used in the reporting of crime against disabled people. It uses social representations theory as a theoretical lens to assist us to see that portrayals of both victim and perpetrators by the media and others serves to distance them from each other, and from mainstream society. It highlights how this process of ‘othering’ serves to disadvantage disabled people and places a disproportionate emphasis on individual characteristics. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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