Murder, Gender and the Media

Murder, Gender and the Media
Author: Jane Monckton-Smith
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2012-05-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137007737


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A shocking look at how the idea of romantic love can justify and excuse the killing of women by their partners, and lead to sympathy and reduced sentences for the killers. The author explores how stories of domestic homicide are told in the news, by the police, and in the courts, drawing from 72 cases which took place over a twelve month period.


Murder, Gender and the Media
Language: en
Pages: 201
Authors: Jane Monckton-Smith
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-05-09 - Publisher: Springer

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A shocking look at how the idea of romantic love can justify and excuse the killing of women by their partners, and lead to sympathy and reduced sentences for t
Murder, the Media, and the Politics of Public Feelings
Language: en
Pages: 223
Authors: Jennifer Petersen
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-08-12 - Publisher: Indiana University Press

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In 1998, the horrific murders of Matthew Shepard -- a gay man living in Laramie, Wyoming -- and James Byrd Jr. -- an African American man dragged to his death i
Women, Violence, and the Media
Language: en
Pages: 300
Authors: Drew Humphries
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-04-15 - Publisher: UPNE

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Provocative collection of essays designed to give students an understanding of media representations of women's experience of violence and to educate a new gene
More or Less Dead
Language: en
Pages: 222
Authors: Alice Driver
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-03-26 - Publisher: University of Arizona Press

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In Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, people disappear, their bodies dumped in deserted city lots or jettisoned in the unforgiving desert. All too many of them are women.
Media and Violence
Language: en
Pages: 258
Authors: Karen Boyle
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-01-01 - Publisher: SAGE

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Media and Violence pays equal attention to the production, content and reception involved in any representation of violence. This book offers a framework for un