Citation

Vitis L. Asian J. Criminol. 2020; 15(1): 25-43.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2020, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s11417-019-09293-0

PMID

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Abstract

This article documents women's experiences of image-based sexual abuse (IBSA) in Singapore. Drawing from 30 IBSA cases reported to a local sexual assault service provider, it utilises McGlynn, Rackley and Houghton's (Feminist Legal Studies 25(1):25-46, 2017) IBSA continuum and Powell and Henry's (2017) IBSA typology to map the different ways image technologies impacted Singaporean women's experiences of sexual violence. This article also builds on extant IBSA literature which has focused on cases featuring image dissemination, online public spheres and stranger perpetrators, to provide an account of IBSA in the private sphere. I argue that while dominant framings show IBSA intertwined with the conditions of the public sphere, these cases show how IBSA and IBSA victims/survivors remain discursively, spatially and politically hidden. This article highlights the need to include the private sphere as a site of analysis to deepen understandings of IBSA types, contexts and victims/survivors within international research.

Language: en