Deviations in routine work life, sitting frivolously at home, use and abuse of different substances coupled with economic imbalance in families led to many different forms of intimate partner and nuptial violence in families. As the lockdowns were stringent and continued for protracted period that led to several forms of domestic violence around the globe. In addition, lockdowns imposed by several governments around the globe made people stay at home without attending workplaces.
These measures created problems of social stigma, discrimination, racism and others. The very common preventive measures that it advocates for such as physical distancing, quarantine and isolation created problems in several of the societies. Apart from creating ripples in its de facto biomedical spheres it also created a whole lot of social problems around the globe. The pandemic of COVID-19 is one of its kind in the history of pandemics around the world. Findings raise important questions for journalistic practice, regarding processes of selection and salience of sources contributing to overall coverage that is partial and biased, rather than an ‘objective’ representation of the social world. Coverage is found to be episodic in character, linked to dramatisation and more simplistic explanatory frames, rather than evidence-based analysis of potential causal factors for these incidents. As well as a tendency towards broad and poorly supported claims-making, several primary causal frames are prevalent: mental health financial debt fall from grace and ‘out of the blue’, whilst a domestic violence frame is notable in its absence. A social constructionist analysis of the print media coverage of three high-profile cases in Ireland highlights framing and discursive patterns, contributing to an explanatory framework that is misleading and lacking in an evidence base. This study examines how this process interacts with the phenomenon of familicide-suicide, where a person kills one or more family members before taking their own life. Media framing helps to shape our understanding of the meaning of news events, often problematically. Recommendations for future research include examining the impact of gun violence prevention responses in domestic violence cases and providing a comparative study of two and three victim counts to better inform law, policy, and the public about what is often hidden away as a private family matter.
Additional case characteristics were examined and revealed significant differences based on the gender of the offender as well as by victim-offender relationship type. Using this database, which defines mass murder as the killing of four or more victims excluding the offender, there were an average of 14 family mass murders annually, most often committed by a current or former intimate male partner using a firearm as the weapon of choice. The current study utilizes the USA Today database, Behind the Bloodshed, and public news articles to assess 163 family mass murder incidents that occurred from 2006 to 2017. The current study addresses limitations within this body of work and provides an analysis of demographic and case characteristics associated with distinct family mass murder offender types. In recent years, media attention has increasingly focused on sensationalized forms of mass murder across the United States, thereby diverting attention on the most frequent typology of mass murder events: family mass murders.
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