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

Bianca Fileborn et al.

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology2020https://doi.org/10.1177/0004865820903777article
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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.

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@article{bianca2020,
  title        = {{Sexual harassment and violence at Australian music festivals: Reporting practices and experiences of festival attendees}},
  author       = {Bianca Fileborn et al.},
  journal      = {Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology},
  year         = {2020},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/0004865820903777},
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