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Sexual harassment and violence at Australian music festivals: Reporting practices and experiences of festival attendees

Sexual harassment and violence at Australian music festivals: Reporting practices and experiences... Despite the well-documented under-reporting of sexual violence, to date, no research has considered reporting practices within the specific context of music festivals. Drawing on 16 in-depth interviews with victim-survivors, this article examines survivors’ experiences of (non)reporting sexual violence in festival settings. We argue that while some barriers to reporting are shared across contexts, others play out in context-specific ways. Our research argues that the liberal, often transgressive culture of music festivals, combined with site-specific policing practices and spatial context, creates unique impediments to reporting with particular implications in responding to, and aiming to prevent, sexual violence at music festivals. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology SAGE

Sexual harassment and violence at Australian music festivals: Reporting practices and experiences of festival attendees

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Publisher
SAGE
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2020
ISSN
0004-8658
eISSN
1837-9273
DOI
10.1177/0004865820903777
Publisher site
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Abstract

Despite the well-documented under-reporting of sexual violence, to date, no research has considered reporting practices within the specific context of music festivals. Drawing on 16 in-depth interviews with victim-survivors, this article examines survivors’ experiences of (non)reporting sexual violence in festival settings. We argue that while some barriers to reporting are shared across contexts, others play out in context-specific ways. Our research argues that the liberal, often transgressive culture of music festivals, combined with site-specific policing practices and spatial context, creates unique impediments to reporting with particular implications in responding to, and aiming to prevent, sexual violence at music festivals.

Journal

Australian and New Zealand Journal of CriminologySAGE

Published: Jun 1, 2020

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