News Related to Sexual Violence, Intimate Partnership Violence and Prostitution on the Webpage of the Hungarian Police — Observations and Recommendations from a Media Ethics Perspective

Abstract

The official webpage of the Hungarian Police — Police.hu — serves as a source for the media, thus the crime news published here are decisive in forming public awareness on crime. The paper focuses on three topics — sexual violence, intimate partnership violence and prostitution — when assessing to what extent the practice of Police.hu meets the high professional and ethical standards to be set towards the communication of the police regarding the principles of circumspect and neutral reporting.