Familiar felons: Gendered characterisations and narrative tropes in media representations of offending women 1905–2015

Familiar felons: Gendered characterisations and narrative tropes in media representations of offending women 1905–2015 Crime, Media, Culture, Ahead of Print. This article contends that contemporary writings on the representation of…
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‘I Am That Girl’: Media reportage, anonymous victims and symbolic annihilation in the aftermath of sexual assault

‘I Am That Girl’: Media reportage, anonymous victims and symbolic annihilation in the aftermath of sexual assault Crime, Media, Culture, Ahead of Print. In the wake of movements such as…
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Anatomy of a rape: Sexual violence and secondary victimization scripts in U.S. film and television, 1959–2019

Anatomy of a rape: Sexual violence and secondary victimization scripts in film and television, 1959–2019 Crime, Media, Culture, Ahead of Print. The rape law reform movement in the has made…
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Reporting ‘African gangs’: Theorising journalistic practice during a multi-mediated moral panic

Reporting ‘African gangs’: Theorising journalistic practice during a multi-mediated moral panic Crime, Media, Culture, Ahead of Print. This article uses Bourdieusian field theory to examine how journalistic practices contributed to…
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