Women as criminals

You are going to look across a range of media at the idea of the woman as a criminal and how it has developed. You'll use some factual media (eg Shannon Matthews' mother) and some fictional (eg Bad Girls). For primary research you'll analyse these representations to see if the fact of being female inflects the representations (slants them or colours them) in any particular way. Are women criminals protrayed as "badder" than men for doing the same crimes...

For promary research take some of these representations and explore them with a group of women, in some way (we'll have to define this more clearly).

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2294/is_/ai_77384285

http://www.albany.edu/scj/jcjpc/vol14is1/britto.pdf