True Crime and Women

Writers, Readers, and Representations

Lili Pâquet, Rosemary Williamson

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• ISBN:
  9781040116135
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Criminology
• Index: Social Sciences

Bringing new research from true crime writers, scholars, and media practitioners around the world, this book offers fresh perspectives on how women read, write, and are portrayed in true crime stories across different platforms, including documentaries, podcasts, and TikToks.

The genre of true crime is flourishing, and it is overwhelmingly consumed by women. Despite this, there is much we do not know about how women consume true crime and are represented in true crime stories of various kinds. This edited volume helps to fill this gap in our knowledge. Across ten chapters and using a variety of study methods, including creative practice, interviews, surveys, archival research, and case studies, the book reveals the multifaceted ways that true crime matters to women and suggests areas of future research. It also offers new insights on a diverse range of topics, such as racial identities, fraudsters, activism, victimisation, and deviance, as well as highlighting major cases from past to present which have influenced criminal justice responses. True Crime and Women is intended for researchers and students of criminology, literary studies, gender studies, media and journalism studies, and rhetorical studies, as well as media practitioners and writers.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of figures and tables
• List of contributors
• Acknowledgements
• 1. True Crime and Women: New Perspectives
• 2. Saving Grace: Mediating Victorian True Crime in the Age of #MeToo
• 3. True Crime through a Feminist Identity Lens
• 4. Women’s Magazines, Crime, and Justice: Invitational Rhetoric in a Decade of True Crime in Australian Women’s Weekly
• 5. Gendered Constructions of Deviance: Women as Perpetrators of Violent Crime in Finnish Tabloid Press
• 6. Toward an Equitable True Crime? What Black and Missing and Murdered and Missing in Montana Reveal about the Media Portrayal of Missing Black and Indigenous Women and Girls
• 7. Are True Crime Podcasts Feminist? What a Content Analysis of the Most-Listened-To True Crime Podcasts Tells Us
• 8. Through the Mirror: Proximity and Subjectivity in Writing Larrimah
• 9. Solicited Diary Methods and Women’s Experiences of True Crime Podcast Listening: Exploring Methodological Questions
• 10. It’s Not All R@p!s+$, M!rd3r3r$ and Ki!!3r$: True Crime Activism on TikTok
• Index