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Record Nr.

UNINA9910303434403321

Autore

Wattis Louise

Titolo

Revisiting the Yorkshire Ripper Murders : Histories of Gender, Violence and Victimhood / / by Louise Wattis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

3-030-01385-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VII, 179 p. 1 illus.)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Victims and Victimology

Disciplina

362.88

364.1523

Soggetti

Victimology

Critical criminology

Violence

Crime

Culture

Gender

Mass media and crime

Great Britain—History

Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime

Violence and Crime

Culture and Gender

Crime and the Media

History of Britain and Ireland

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: The ‘Yorkshire Ripper’ Case: Exploring Recent Crime History -- 2. Locating the ‘Yorkshire Ripper’: A Crime of Time and Place? -- 3. Structural and Cultural Perspectives on Serial Murder -- 4. Feminist Histories and the Sutcliffe Murders -- 5. Remembering and Representing Victims through Research -- 6. Popular Criminological Representations of the Sutcliffe Case -- 7. Conclusion: Applying a Feminist Creative Approach to Crime History .

Sommario/riassunto

Between 1975 and 1980, Peter Sutcliffe, who became known as the



Yorkshire Ripper, murdered 13 women in the North of England. The murders provoked widespread fear amongst women and impacted the public consciousness at both the local and national level. This book revisits the case, applying a feminist and cultural criminological lens to explore a range of criminological concerns relating to gender, violence and victimhood. Combining research findings from oral history interviews, analysis of popular criminological texts and academic commentary, this volume explores what the case can tell us about feminism, fear of crime, gender and serial murder and the representation of victims and sex workers. The volume contributes to a creative cultural criminology, highlighting how excavating recent criminal history and reading across texts presents new ways for understanding violence, gender and representation in the contemporary context. .