The majority of the predators in Sweden are men. More specifically, 90 percent of all homicides are committed by men. This means that there are not many female murderers in Sweden. This awoke the question how the news media portrays the female predator compared to the male predator. The purpose of this study is therefore to analyze the differences in how news media portrays the female predator compared to the male predator. This study also aims to understand why there are differences in how female predators are portrayed by the news media compared to male predators. This study has used a qualitative text analysis to answer these questions. The study has analyzed six crime cases where articles have been selected for the analysis. The results show that the news media portrays the female predator from motives such as jealousy, motherhood and backgroundswhich includes family, education and interests. The news media doesn’t focus onmotives or backgrounds when the predator is a male. The background news media is writing about when it is a male predator is the criminal background. The newsmedia also focus on the victim when it’s a male predator. The differences betweenthe sexes may be due to the social construction of gender. The social construction of gender creates norms for the different genders in society such as normative femininity and masculinity. This creates notions of what is seen as feminine and masculine. When a woman is aggressive and violent, she goes against the normative femininity. She is seen as a deviant woman. A male who is aggressive and violent does not go against the notions of masculinity. This means he is not seen as a deviant man. This could be the reason why the news media portrays female predators different compared to male predators.

Denna studie har syftet att undersöka hur Åsa Waldau, även kallad “Kristi brud” gestaltats i svensk press under åren 2004 till 2021. Studien fokuserar på två perioder, 2004 till 2016 och 2017 till 2021, tiden före och efter misshandelsanklagelserna. För att utföra detta har en kvalitativ text- och bildanalys genomförts och sedan analyserats utifrån ett teoretiskt ramverk med genus-, gestaltnings- och nyhetsvärderingsperspektiv.  Studiens artiklar har analyserats med hjälp av tre metoder som analyserar bild, text, och rubrik och bild i samverkan. Resultatet visade ett tydligt före och efter i mediernas gestaltning då hon mellan åren 2004-2016 framställdes i rollen som mystiskt fenomen och mellan åren 2017-2021 i rollen som kvinnlig förövare. Ur ett genusteoretiskt perspektiv har gestaltningen förändrats över de två perioderna genom att hon under första perioden tillskrivs feminina egenskaper och hon under den andra perioden tillskrivs maskulina egenskaper. Ur ett nyhetsvärderingsperspektiv har studien visat att Knutbydramats höga nyhetsvärde var avgörande för Åsa Waldaus nyhetsvärde. Studien har även visat att tidningarna i flera fall använt bilder på Waldau och “Kristi brud” i rubriken som ett dragplåster. Sammanfattningsvis visar resultatet att det kan upplevas som att tidningarna under den första perioden hade problem med att tillskriva henne en tydlig roll på grund av hennes komplexitet men när hon 2017 blir anklagad för misshandel tillskriver tidningarna henne rollen som kvinnlig förövare och då blir även samspelet mellan bild, rubrik och text lättare för läsarna att ta till sig.

This study examines how local newspapers frame female and male murderers. Thestudy specifies two murder cases that recieved a lot of media coverage, and themurderers are Johanna Möller and Billy Fagerström. The purpose is to see how the localnewspapers for each case, Vestmanlands Läns Tidning and Hudiksvalls Tidning, framethe murderers in terms of characteristics, description, name and personal facts and howthe differences appear between them. The research question awoke because the localnewspapers have a position in the society that can impact how people view the worldand murderers as a phenomenon. The news is the first source for the citizens oninformation about crimes and therefore have a significant impact on how people buildtheir perceptions about female and male killers. Research regarding crime journalism ona local level is relatively unexplored concerning crime journalism on a higher level, forexample, in the Swedish evening press. This study has used qualitative and quantitativetext analysis to answer these questions. The study has analyzed two local newspapersabout two convicted murderers, one male and one female, to see how media frames murderers in relation to their gender. The study has profound support from the framing-theory, gender-theory and Yvonne Jewkes stereotypes. Among other things, our results show that the local newspapers frame Johanna as controlling, manipulating, threatening,and lacking of empathy. Johanna's background, such as profession, upbringing,motherhood has a much more significant part in the articles in contrast to articles aboutBilly. Johanna is portrayed like this because she committed a crime and is also a womanand is therefore not only deviating once but twice from the female stereotype. This didnot appear in the analysis of Billy, who was portrayed mainly as a violent ex-boyfriend,which is nothing new in how the media frames a man who kills his ex-girlfriend.

Male victims of domestic abuse with women as perpetrators is not a common supposition and seems to be a topic which needs further attention. The purpose of our essay is therefore to investigate men's experiences of being abused by a woman in a romantic relationship. The survey aims to illustrate the men's own voices. The aim is also to illustrate the consequences of being a man and having a female perpetrator in a romantic relationship. The study was conducted through biographies, all written by men with experience of this essay's subject. The result is divided in three main themes: the experience of the abuse, shame and being a victim and a male at the same time. The most prominent results included men’s experiences of both physical and psychological abuse where they were a victim of violence by their female partner and suffered major injuries and endured many years of control, humiliation and violations. The results also presented consequences of being a male victim of domestic abuse which featured feelings of shame, fear of others acknowledging them as weak and not being accepted as a victim by society.

This literature study aims to investigate women’s violence on men. Intimate partner violence (IPV) is well researched within the context of women as victims and men as perpetrators. However, men who fall victim to female-perpetrated IPV is not a known subject to the general public. The study will therefore study men as victims to IPV where women are perpetrators as well different types of violence such as psychological, physical, sexual and digital violence. Men’s experiences as victims of IPV will also touch on their help-seeking experiences which are affected by hegemonic masculinity, stigma and shame. This literature study has used a lot of empirical material that contains qualitative studies from different countries thus making it difficult to draw general conclusions. The purpose is however to discuss the subject in relation to different theories, highlights and understand men's experiences as victims of female-perpetrated IPV.