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Reporting femicide-suicide in the news: The current utilization of suicide reporting guidelines and recommendations for the future

Executive Summary

In this article, Dr.'s Tara N. Richards, Lane Kirkland Gillespie, and Eugena M. Givens analyze media coverage on femicide-suicides that occurred in North Carolina between 2002 and 2009. Specifically, the authors explore whether newspaper reports on femicide-suicide follow existing recommendations for suicide reporting and emphasize the importance of doing so. They also discuss limitations of existing femicide-suicide literature. This article is only accessible with journal subscription.

Author(s)

Tara N. Richards
Lane Kirkland Gillespie
Eugena M. Givens
News articles often failed to include relevant statistics, provide information for national or local resources, use suicide and/or domestic violence experts as sources, and as a consequence failed to frame femicide-suicides within the greater social issue of domestic violence. When addressing causality, approximately two thirds of newspaper articles oversimplified the femicide-suicide event by attributing it to a specific singular cause or as unexplainable. This finding mirrors research on femicide reporting broadly, which indicates that the majority of news stories do not properly contextualize incidents of domestic violence (Gillespie et al. 2013; Richards et al. 2014).

 

 


 

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