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Serial killers

Serial killers: the media and cultural response to these crimes, from the Moors Murderers to Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper.

Serial killers: Laurie talks to Ian Cummins, Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Salford, about the media and cultural responses to the child murders committed by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley two decades earlier. The Moors Murders were to provide an unfortunate template for future media reporting on serial killing, including the crimes committed by Peter Sutcliffe - the Yorkshire Ripper - as described in a new study by Louise Wattis, Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Sociology at Teesside University. Sutcliffe murdered 13 women in the North of England between 1975 and 1980. Dr Wattis discusses the way in which these crimes shed light on how we think about fear of crime, gender and serial murder and the representation of victims and sex workers.

Producer: Jayne Egerton

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Mon 21 Oct 2019 00:15
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- Revisiting the Yorkshire Ripper Murders: Histories of Gender, Violence and Victimhood by

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  • Wed 16 Oct 2019 16:00
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  • Mon 21 Oct 2019 00:15
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