Victimology. Reporting, suffering and victim profiles

Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Psychology - Social Psychology, , language: English, abstract: As noted by Karmen (2013), media coverage has given victims with firsthand experiences a public platform to campaign for wider societal reforms. The Curleys was given national attention to their pain when their 10-year-old son, Jeffrey Curley, was murdered. However, media are in a profit...