Re-faced and Pornified: A Visual, Narrative Analysis of Sexual Scripts in Police Cases of Image-based Abuse
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Re-faced and Pornified : A Visual, Narrative Analysis of Sexual Scripts in Police Cases of Image-based Abuse. / Harder, Sidsel Kirstine.
In: British Journal of Criminology, Vol. 63, No. 3, 2023, p. 651–667.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Re-faced and Pornified
T2 - A Visual, Narrative Analysis of Sexual Scripts in Police Cases of Image-based Abuse
AU - Harder, Sidsel Kirstine
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - This article analyses police cases to argue that image-based sexual abuse should not be understood as only happening to women who have shared risque image of themselves. Anyone could have sexual images shared without consent, because all digital images can be pornified by the addition of sexually explicit iconography. Pornography is important to research visually because porn is a sexual script that can be used to alter any image from everyday and/or intimate to abusive. The research field on nonconsensual sharing of intimate images has abolished the term 'revenge porn' as contributing to victim blaming: Image-based sexual abuse is not caused by any acts justifying 'revenge'. However, the relevance of the concept of 'porn' may have been too hastily dismissed.
AB - This article analyses police cases to argue that image-based sexual abuse should not be understood as only happening to women who have shared risque image of themselves. Anyone could have sexual images shared without consent, because all digital images can be pornified by the addition of sexually explicit iconography. Pornography is important to research visually because porn is a sexual script that can be used to alter any image from everyday and/or intimate to abusive. The research field on nonconsensual sharing of intimate images has abolished the term 'revenge porn' as contributing to victim blaming: Image-based sexual abuse is not caused by any acts justifying 'revenge'. However, the relevance of the concept of 'porn' may have been too hastily dismissed.
KW - image-based abuse
KW - pornography
KW - sexual scripts
KW - police data
KW - visual criminology
KW - PORNOGRAPHY
KW - UNDERSTANDINGS
KW - NEUTRALIZATION
KW - FRAMEWORK
KW - PLEASURE
KW - POLITICS
KW - VIOLENCE
KW - CULTURE
KW - TORTURE
KW - GENDER
U2 - 10.1093/bjc/azac051
DO - 10.1093/bjc/azac051
M3 - Journal article
VL - 63
SP - 651
EP - 667
JO - British Journal of Criminology
JF - British Journal of Criminology
SN - 0007-0955
IS - 3
ER -
ID: 319799131