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Why Didn’t They Leave? Media Speculations About the Sexuality and Agency of Victims of Long-Term Child Abductions

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In the last decade, intense media scrutiny has focused on several recoveries of teenagers and adults who were victims of long-term abductions. At the heart of news coverage is an obsession with describing graphic details of sexual contact between the abductors and victims as well as discussing whether the victims remained with their abductors voluntarily. In the mid-2000s, the prominent “recovered victim” cases of Elizabeth Smart, Shawn Hornbeck, and Jaycee Dugard spawned journalistic narratives in which teenage sexuality is to blame. Problematic themes emerge that imply the teenagers chose to stay with abductors and perhaps enjoyed the sexual contact that occurred during the teenagers’ confinements. Media discourses police teenage sexuality in this post-9/11 milieu in which fear of attacks by cultural others on the idealized child are entwined with fear of youth agency and sexuality. This project also offers a comparative case study of how boy victims and girl victims are treated in news discourses.
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Duvall, Spring-Serenity. and Moscowitz, Leigh. "Why Didn’t They Leave? Media Speculations About the Sexuality and Agency of Victims of Long-Term Child Abductions" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, TBA, Boston, MA, <Not Available>. 2013-05-18 <http://citation.allacademic.com/meta/p490990_index.html>

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Duvall, S. and Moscowitz, L. M. "Why Didn’t They Leave? Media Speculations About the Sexuality and Agency of Victims of Long-Term Child Abductions" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, TBA, Boston, MA <Not Available>. 2013-05-18 from http://citation.allacademic.com/meta/p490990_index.html

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Abstract: In the last decade, intense media scrutiny has focused on several recoveries of teenagers and adults who were victims of long-term abductions. At the heart of news coverage is an obsession with describing graphic details of sexual contact between the abductors and victims as well as discussing whether the victims remained with their abductors voluntarily. In the mid-2000s, the prominent “recovered victim” cases of Elizabeth Smart, Shawn Hornbeck, and Jaycee Dugard spawned journalistic narratives in which teenage sexuality is to blame. Problematic themes emerge that imply the teenagers chose to stay with abductors and perhaps enjoyed the sexual contact that occurred during the teenagers’ confinements. Media discourses police teenage sexuality in this post-9/11 milieu in which fear of attacks by cultural others on the idealized child are entwined with fear of youth agency and sexuality. This project also offers a comparative case study of how boy victims and girl victims are treated in news discourses.

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