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dc.contributor.authorKelly, Katharine
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-06T09:45:32Z
dc.date.available2019-06-06T09:45:32Z
dc.date.issued2019
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Kelly, K. (2019) 'Examining Constructions of Perpetrators and Victims in Early Twentieth Century Canadian Newspaper Accounts of Femicides', SOLON Law, Crime and History, 9(1), p. 29-61.

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dc.identifier.issn2045-9238
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/14245
dc.description.abstract

This article examines how spousal femicides were framed in Ontario newspapers in the first decade of the twentieth century. Newspaper accounts served as a primary source of information, understandings, and perspectives on crime, criminality, and the law. Accounts of intimate killings presented the events as ‘news worthy’ and simultaneously sought to minimise challenges to patriarchal values in marriage. Media coverage employed an individualised model of crime and focused on perpetrators as non-normal (failed) or abnormal men. Intemperance, immigration status, and social class were used to ‘other’ perpetrators. Victim blaming was relatively uncommon except in cases of female infidelity.

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dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Plymouth
dc.rightsAttribution 3.0 United States*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/*
dc.subjectmediaen_US
dc.subjectspousal femicideen_US
dc.subjectperpetratorsen_US
dc.subjectvictimsen_US
dc.subjectwife abuseen_US
dc.titleExamining Constructions of Perpetrators and Victims in Early Twentieth Century Canadian Newspaper Accounts of Femicidesen_US
plymouth.issue1
plymouth.volume9
plymouth.journalSOLON Law, Crime and History


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