While attacks against members of the LGBT community are increasingly covered as hate crimes and are widely viewed as a form of repression, attacks on women are almost never covered as violations of human rights. We propose that until violence against women is recognized as a form of repression and a threat to the physical security of women, we cannot expect much to be done to prevent it. We posit that policies aimed at preventing violence against women are unlikely to come about unless this abstract concept is connected, through a connection frame, to concrete crimes against women. We conducted a framing analysis of news coverage of all confirmed femicides in Massachusetts in 2013 and find that while journalists have the potential to draw these connection frames, they seldom put these killings in the context of violations of women’s rights.

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语境中的杀戮：对杀害女性的新闻框架分析

虽然对 LGBT 社区成员的攻击越来越多地被列为仇恨犯罪，并被广泛视为一种镇压形式，但对妇女的攻击几乎从未被列为侵犯人权行为。我们建议，在暴力侵害妇女行为被确认为一种压制形式和对妇女人身安全的威胁之前，我们不能指望采取很多措施来防止它发生。我们认为，除非通过连接框架将这一抽象概念与针对妇女的具体犯罪联系起来，否则不太可能制定旨在防止暴力侵害妇女行为的政策。我们对 2013 年马萨诸塞州所有已确认的杀害女性的新闻报道进行了框架分析，发现虽然记者有可能绘制这些联系框架，但他们很少将这些杀戮置于侵犯妇女权利的背景下。