All Outputs (8)

Transgressive Imaginations: Crime, Deviance and Culture (2012)
Book
O'Neill, M., & Seal, L. (2012). Transgressive Imaginations: Crime, Deviance and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan

Taking the notion of transgression – the breaking of boundaries – as its starting point, this book brings a fresh approach to cultural criminology by exploring representations of the transgressive in fictive texts and ethnographic research. Chapters... Read More about Transgressive Imaginations: Crime, Deviance and Culture.

Ruth Ellis in the Condemned Cell: Voyeurism and Resistance (2012)
Journal Article
Seal, L. (2012). Ruth Ellis in the Condemned Cell: Voyeurism and Resistance. Prison service journal, 199, 17-19

When Ruth Ellis became the last woman to be executed in England and Wales in July 1955, execution had long been something which took place in private. It is a well established argument that the ending of public execution in 1868 made the practice mun... Read More about Ruth Ellis in the Condemned Cell: Voyeurism and Resistance.

Ruth Ellis and Public Contestation of the Death Penalty (2011)
Journal Article
Seal, L. (2011). Ruth Ellis and Public Contestation of the Death Penalty. Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 50(5), 492-504. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2311.2011.00691.x

This article examines public reactions to the case of Ruth Ellis through an analysis of letters sent to the Home Secretary. The vast majority of these requested a reprieve, and highlighted themes such as her status as a mother, the murder as a crime... Read More about Ruth Ellis and Public Contestation of the Death Penalty.

Women, Murder and Narratives of Femininity (2010)
Other
Seal, L. (2010). Women, Murder and Narratives of Femininity

The language used to portray women accused of murder is frequently lurid and stereotypical. It can be especially shocking when women stand accused of such crimes as it violates idealised notions of femininity as conformist and nurturing.

Women, Murder and Femininity: Gender Representations of Women Who Kill (2010)
Book
Seal, L. (2010). Women, Murder and Femininity: Gender Representations of Women Who Kill. Palgrave Macmillan

This book examines how women who kill have been perceived in terms of their gender, exploring how murder by women is seen as especially transgressive, and examining the impact this has on how women who kill are viewed. The study focuses on murders by... Read More about Women, Murder and Femininity: Gender Representations of Women Who Kill.

Issues of gender and class in the Mirror newspapers' campaign for the release of Edith Chubb (2009)
Journal Article
Seal, L. (2009). Issues of gender and class in the Mirror newspapers' campaign for the release of Edith Chubb. Crime, Media, Culture, 5(1), 57-78. https://doi.org/10.1177/1741659008102062

In May 1958, Edith Chubb was tried at the Old Bailey for the murder of her sister-in-law, Lilian Chubb. She was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to four years' imprisonment. She claimed to have accidentally killed Lilian by pull... Read More about Issues of gender and class in the Mirror newspapers' campaign for the release of Edith Chubb.

Criminalisation and the eighteenth-century's 'Bloody code' (2008)
Other
Seal, L. (2008). Criminalisation and the eighteenth-century's 'Bloody code'

Public reactions to the case of Mary Wilson, the last woman to be sentenced to death in England and Wales (2008)
Journal Article
Seal, L. (2008). Public reactions to the case of Mary Wilson, the last woman to be sentenced to death in England and Wales. Papers from the British Criminology Conference, 8, 65-84

In 1958, 68 year old Mary Wilson became the last woman to be reprieved from the death penalty in England and Wales. She was convicted of the capital murders of two of her husbands, whom she poisoned. This article examines the discourses of capital pu... Read More about Public reactions to the case of Mary Wilson, the last woman to be sentenced to death in England and Wales.