Incorrigible Offenders
Media Representations of Female Habitual Criminals in the Late Victorian and Edwardian Press
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12604607 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jenny Coleman (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 143-158 |
| Publication date | 2016-02-16 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Media History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1368-8804 • E-ISSN: 1469-9729 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13688804.2016.1141042 |
| OpenAlex | W2315010477 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 10 |
As a contribution to the historiography of female criminality, this article charts the discursive contours of media representations of female habitual criminals. The discussion is based on analysis of the ways in which the late Victorian and Edwardian newspaper press in New Zealand reported cases of female criminals through the gendered and classed trope of ‘the adventuress’. The specific focus is on how concepts of class were implicated in the ways in which competing representations of female fraudsters, swindlers and thieves were portrayed in syndicated international articles and local news media. It is argued that representations of adventuresses sensationalised as headline-making anomalies in the news media need to be understood within the context of changing constructions of the thief. Newspaper reporting of their ‘exploits’ operated as implicit cautionary moral tales that reinforced normative constructions of feminine respectability
Art · Context (archaeology · Criminology · Focus (optics · Headline · Historiography · Linguistics · Literature · Media studies · Newspaper · Normative · Political science · Sociology · Trope (literature · Decadence, Literature, and Society · Gender Studies · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |