Web resource:	http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5763&context=etd
Type:	Thesis
Title:	Law and abuse : representations of intimate partner homicide in law procedural dramas
Authors:	Campbell, Jaime A
Keywords:	Homicide;Intimate partner violence;Law;Legal processes;Television;Abused women
Year:	2016
Citation:	Paper 4076
Notes:	"In the early 1970s, feminists began to raise awareness about intimate partner violence (IPV), transforming it from a private family matter into a social problem. Popular media representations of IPV, which exposed the extent and severity of the problem, played a key role in this transition. Surprisingly, however, there has been very little research on media representations of IPV or intimate partner homicide (IPH). This thesis conducts a critical discourse analysis on recent media representations of abused women who kill their abusive partners in law procedural dramas, a genre of television that both commands a wide primetime audience and impacts viewers' understanding of the legal system. I argue that the common representational tropes used in these episodes actively harm abused women by constructing only abuse narratives that reinforce misogynistic tropes as valid and by suggesting the legal system meets abused women's needs." Open access
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/17565
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