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Waterhouse-Watson, Deb

Deb Waterhouse-Watson is an independent scholar whose research is at the intersection of sport, sexual violence, law and the media. She has held research and teaching positions at Monash University, Deakin University and Macquarie University, Australia, and is the author of Athletes, Sexual Assault and ‘Trials by Media’: Narrative Immunity (2013).


Football and Sexual Crime, from the Courtroom to the Newsroom</a>

Football and Sexual Crime, from the Courtroom to the Newsroom

This book interrogates the process of court reporting on rape and other sexual crime cases involving Australian footballers. At the intersection of sport, gender, media and the law, it uncovers the story behind rape myths and stereotypes in media. This book analyses newspaper reporting alongside transcripts of the trials they represent and interviews with the journalists themselves.