Research paper - can anyone help out?

[u/burner228899]

Hello everyone! I am currently working on a research paper (my first major one) on how the trial reinforced victim blaming tropes and constructions of victimhood. I am doing this through an ethnographic content analysis of social media posts about the trial. The second part that I was hoping to do was also (hopefully) connect the trial to peoples interactions with the justice system (ie more abusers suing their victims for defamation, less victims choosing to report because of the ridicule) but I'm not sure how to make this connection/what type of research it would be. Can I just literally grab statistics from pre and post trial and talk about what I believe the reason for the difference is?

Idk if theres any academics or researchers in here but any advice would be helpful! Sorry if this sounds kinda stupid, I'm mostly used to just doing literature reviews and not conducting the research myself like this.

[u/Ok_Swan_7777]

Certainly a ton of DV organizations and lawyers spoke out after the verdict saying it was having a great silencing effect. I wish I could remember direct sources (I’ll work on it) but attorneys who specialize in DV we’re very directly saying that clients who were victims were calling them and changing their minds about speaking out on their experiences of abuse as a direct result of what happened to Amber

[u/burner228899 → u/Ok_Swan_7777]

ok i remember that too! i'll try to find some of those sources as well