ABSTRACT
The aim in the last chapter was to identify points of agreement and dispute regarding the construction of sex crime in the press. The aim in this chapter is to try to resolve some key issues by locating practitioners’ and journalists’ often conflicting claims within an empirical framework. The analysis conducted in Chapter 4 provides the foundations for the following evaluation, which focuses on the language and structure of sex crime narratives, how different types of offence and offender are represented, the promotion of stranger-danger, and the contextualisation of sex crime in press discourse.
