Relating Rape and Murder: Narratives of Sex, Death and Gender

by Kenneth A. Loparo

Overview

This book is about relating the concepts of rape and murder in both senses of the term; that is the way rape and murder are linked and related and also how stories of rape and murder are related or told.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230242029
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	08/16/2010
Edition description:	2010
Pages:	190
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

JANE MONCKTON-SMITH is Lecturer in Criminology, University of Gloucestershire, UK. She is a former Police Officer and lectures in the areas of sexualized and fatal violence, and criminal/forensic investigation.

Table of Contents

Foreword Professor Keith Soothill viii

Acknowledgements x

1 Relating Rape and Murder 1

2 Biological/Historical Sexual Violence Discourse 17

3 Feminism and Sexual Violence Discourse 39

4 Jack the Ripper Narrative 55

5 Violence Against Women in News Report Narratives 82

6 Police Narratives 115

7 Rape and Murder Related 151

Appendix 174

References 175

Index 188

Editorial Reviews

'Jane Monckton-Smith's investigation into inferred relationships between rape and murder is thorough and insightful, evincing the ways in which police investigations are informed by, and impact on, media narratives about violence.' The British Journal of Criminology

'This examination into the transparent fusion of rape and murder (into one act of sexualised fatal violence) is an essential addition to contemporary literary and statistical analysis of violence against women' - Jennifer Chiotti, Journal of Sexual Aggression

'In sum, this is a complex and extremely interesting, indeed timely book given the popularity of serial killer narratives and the systematic ways in which such narratives distract public concern from the regrettable '"normality" of violence in heterosexual relationships' - Laura Hengehold, Contemporary Sociology

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