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'Women have always been central to true crime stories: as victims, perpetrators, readers, and (increasingly) as tellers of these tales. Indeed, these tales, often dismissed as sensationalised violence, offer important opportunities to reflect on crime and crime control.
'Many true crime writers today – including numerous women, working in a once male-dominated market – have been biographers, coroners, detectives, historians, journalists, lawyers, and psychologists. These backgrounds bring a style of storytelling that educates us about, not just merely entertains us with, crime. Importantly, many privilege complex and nuanced storytelling over simplistic stereotypes of women as just 'bad' or just 'good'. (Introduction)
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https://theconversation.com/a-criminal-record-women-and-australian-true-crime-stories-82590
A Criminal Record: Women and Australian True Crime Stories
The Conversation
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- Last Woman Hanged : The Terrible, True Story of Louisa Collins 2014 single work biography
- The Worst Woman in Sydney : The Life and Crimes of Kate Leigh 2016 single work biography
- Nice Girl : Whatever Happened to Baby Tegan Lane? 2011 single work biography
- Captain Thunderbolt and His Lady : The True Story of Bushrangers Frederick Ward and Mary Ann Bugg 2011 single work biography
- Gun Alley : Murder, Lies and Failure of Justice 2005 single work biography
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