失蹤白人女性綜合症
失蹤白人女性綜合症是社會科學家[1][2][3]和媒體評論員使用的一個術語，指媒體（尤其是電視媒體）[4]更傾向於對涉及年輕、有魅力、白人、中上階層女性或女孩的失蹤案件進行報道，而相較而言，非白人、較低社會階層的女性以及男性或男孩的失蹤案件則相對缺乏關注[5][6]。該詞雖然產生於人口失蹤案件的背景之下，但有時也用於報道其他暴力犯罪。這一現象在美國、加拿大、英國、澳大利亞、新西蘭等其他以白人為主的國家以及南非都較為突出[7][8]。
廣泛認為新聞主播格溫·伊菲爾是失蹤白人女性綜合症這一短語的發明人[6]。查爾頓·麥基爾韋恩將失蹤白人女性綜合症定義為「白人女性作為暴力犯罪受害者在新聞媒體報道中扮演特權角色」，並將該綜合症假定為美國文化意象中的一種種族階層[9]。愛德華多·博尼利亞-席爾瓦將失蹤白人女性綜合症中的種族構成歸類為「種族語法的一種形式，白人優越主義通過這種形式被內隱的，甚至無形的標準正常化」[1]。
這一現象導致了一系列嚴厲打擊犯罪措施的採取，主要針對人群為政治右派，這些措施以那些失蹤後又被發現受到傷害的白人女性命名[10][11]。除了種族和階級之外，在確定失蹤女性新聞的報道價值時，所謂的吸引力、體型和年輕程度等因素也被認為是不公平的標準[12]。對失蹤黑人女性的新聞報道更傾向於關注受害者的問題，如虐待男友、犯罪史或吸毒等要素，而對白人女性的報道往往側重於她們作為母親、女兒、學生和社區貢獻者的角色[13]。
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There is no polite way to say it, and it is a fact of television news. Media and social critics call the wall-to-wall coverage that seems to swirl around these events, 'Missing White Woman Syndrome'. That was the phrase invoked by Sheri Parks, a professor of American studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, during our interview yesterday.
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Charlton McIlwain, professor New York University: White women occupy a privileged role as violent crime victims in news media reporting.
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