Authors:
- Yang Liu: ORCID

- Zhongzheng Fang: ORCID, ResearchGate, SciProfiles

Abstract: »The leading role of the media is very important in the new media era to build the reporting system and framework of sexual violence crimes, guide people’s awareness and public opinion, and improve society’s vigilance on sexual crimes. This study took People’s Daily Online, a representative online media in China, as a research object to analyse the reporting of sexual crimes over the past 15 years. We conducted relevant searches for specific keywords set in the Python crawler and used IBM SPSS Statistics 19 software to analyse the frequency of relevant content. The results of the research show that, firstly, there have been significant changes in the number of news stories about sexual crimes. Second, the majority of sexual crime news stories are from mainland China. Third, the focus of the news stories and people is relatively concentrated on the perpetrators. Fourth, the People’s Daily Online’s coverage of sexual crimes focuses on blaming the perpetrators. Fifth, sexual crimes show that the framework is more episodic. This paper examines changes in the coverage of sexual crimes in China and captures how the media cover socially relevant issues, providing important insights for future social health, psychological awareness and diversion, and media policy.« (Source: PLoS ONE)

Contents:

	Abstract (p. 1)
	1. Introduction (p. 1)
	2. Conceptual definition and related literature (p. 3)
		2.1 Conceptual definition (p. 3)
		2.2 Related literature (p. 4)
	3. Materials and methods (p. 6)
		3.1 Research design (p. 6)
		3.2 Material selection (p. 7)
		3.3 Data analysis (p. 9)
	4. Research results (p. 9)
	5. Discussion and conclusion (p. 15)
	Author Contributions (p. 17)
	References (p. 17)

Wikipedia: History of Asia: History of China / History of the People's Republic of China (2002–present) | Newspaper: Chinese-language newspapers / People's Daily | Sex and the law: Rape / Rape in China