Gender, True Crime and Criminology

Auteur

Louise Wattis is Senior Lecturer at Northumbria University, UK. She has a strong interest in gender both within criminology and more widely across social policy. Within criminology, Louise's research interests focus on gender, the meaning and significance of crime, crime and history and applying oral history and narrative methodologies within criminology.

Texte du rabat

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