Overview
- Offers a new, in-depth, rigorous analysis academic analysis of a range of themes relating to these murders
- Combines feminist scholarship with ‘broader criminological thought’ to enrich analyses of serial murder and gender violence
- Presents a timely contribution to the emerging sociological work on serial murder
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Victims and Victimology (PSVV)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
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About the author
Louise Wattis is a senior lecturer in Criminology and Sociology in the Department of Criminology, Law and Policing at Teesside University, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Revisiting the Yorkshire Ripper Murders
Book Subtitle: Histories of Gender, Violence and Victimhood
Authors: Louise Wattis
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Victims and Victimology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01385-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-01384-4Published: 12 January 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-40518-2Published: 22 February 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-01385-1Published: 28 December 2018
Series ISSN: 2947-9355
Series E-ISSN: 2947-9363
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 179
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Victimology, Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime, Violence and Crime, Culture and Gender, Crime and the Media, History of Britain and Ireland