Våldet och könets betydelse - En kvalitativ innehållsanalys om hur våld i nära relationer framställs i svenska dagstidningar

Sammanfattning: The aim of this study was to examine how swedish newspapers writes about domestic violence from a gender and a categorization perspective. Violence between partners is an social problem that affects both men and women which crime reports shows. In this study we’ve done a content analysis on 27 newsarticles from five swedish newspapers. For this study we’ve asked these two research questions: How does swedish newspapers write about men and women as victims and offenders in domestic violence? What similarities and differences are there in how men and women are portrayed in swedish newspapers? In this study we found that there is a difference in how swedish newspapers writes about men and women as victims and offenders in domestice violence, we can see that men and women are attributed to different characteristics.