Gender, true crime and criminology : offenders, victims and ethics / Louise Wattis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wattis, Louise, author.

Series:

Emerald studies in popular culture and gender.

Emerald Studies in Popular Culture and Gender Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (137 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leeds, England : Emerald Publishing Limited, [2025]

Summary:

Interest in true crime as a form of popular entertainment has sky-rocketed in recent years. Gender, True Crime and Criminologychallenges traditional definitions of the genre, expanding representations of victimhood and how we understand true crime audiences in gendered terms.

Contents:

Cover

Gender, True Crime and Criminology

EMERALD STUDIES IN POPULAR CULTURE AND GENDER

Gender, True Crime and Criminology: Offenders, Victims and Ethics

Copyright Page

Contents

1. Introduction: Gender, True Crime and Criminology

Academic Criminology and Popular Criminology

Men, Women and True Crime

Gender and True Crime

An Overview of Chapters

2. Gender and True Crime: Women, Murder, Feminism and Therapy

Introduction

Connecting True Crime to the History of Women, Audiences and Culture

True Crime and Digital Culture

Just What Is It About True Crime and Women?

Survival, Identification and Community

Expanding the Analysis of Women and True Crime

True Crime, Feminism and Ethics

3. True Crime, Male Audiences and the Digital Hardman

The Hardman Story

The Digital Hardman

Male Audiences and True Crime

Eventful Lives and All or Nothing

Hardman Narratives and the Criminological Imagination

Narrative Criminology

Positioning the Digital Hardman in Digital True Crime Culture

Digital Masculinity and Violence

4. Football's Darkest Secret: Sexual Abuse, Elite Sport, Masculinity and Victimhood

Sexual Abuse in English Youth Football

Football's Darkest Secret

Male Victims, Masculinity and the 'Victimological Other'

Masculinity and Football

Sexual Abuse in Sport

Documentary, Public Criminology and Sexual Violence

Masculinity, Victimhood and Vulnerability

Conclusion

5. Sexual Violence and True Crime: Exposing Power and Injustice in the Longform Docuseries

Rape, Sexual Violence, Speaking Out and Survivor Voice

The Rape Memoir

Sexual Violence: Stories and Activism Online

Sexual Violence Documentaries

Surviving R. Kelly

Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich

Discussion.

6. True Crime's Staple: Reflecting on Murdered Woman in News and Popular Culture

Overview of Cases

Gender, True Crime and Victimhood

Which Women Matter in News Media?

Discussion

Who Should We Grieve over?

Conclusion: The Implications of the Dead Girl Story

7. Conclusion: True Crime's Ethical Dilemmas

References.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781804553602

1804553603