Deconstructing the house that Jack built: an examination of the discursive regime of sexual murder
Deconstructing the house that Jack built: an examination of the discursive regime of sexual murder
This research takes the form of a Foucauldian Genealogical Discourse Analysis and is premised upon the hypothesis that there is a cultural conflation of the offences of rape and murder produced within the dominant discourse of sexual murder. In examining the discourse across key institutional sites of media and police operational practice, common regimes of truth and discursive objects are identified and their relationship to power and knowledge analysed.
A key aim was to establish if the powerful relationship existing between the offences of rape and murder is implicated in the skewed perception of rape trauma and rape as an offence, noted in previous research that is seen to impede successful prosecutions (Kelly et al 2005, Young 1998, Wolbert Burgess and Holstrom 1974).
It was concluded that the kind of violence exemplified in the discourse of sexual murder has created a framework for making meaning of violence towards women by men, more generally. The sexual framing of violence against women constructed in the discourse and practiced in media and law enforcement has reversed the feminist proposition that rape is violence, so instead of understanding rape as a form of violence, we can understand violence against women as a form of rape
Monckton-Smith, J.
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2006
Monckton-Smith, J.
235b31d4-b433-48fc-aac4-141e7e6af2c3
Monckton-Smith, J.
(2006)
Deconstructing the house that Jack built: an examination of the discursive regime of sexual murder.
Cardiff University, Social Sciences, Doctoral Thesis.
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This research takes the form of a Foucauldian Genealogical Discourse Analysis and is premised upon the hypothesis that there is a cultural conflation of the offences of rape and murder produced within the dominant discourse of sexual murder. In examining the discourse across key institutional sites of media and police operational practice, common regimes of truth and discursive objects are identified and their relationship to power and knowledge analysed.
A key aim was to establish if the powerful relationship existing between the offences of rape and murder is implicated in the skewed perception of rape trauma and rape as an offence, noted in previous research that is seen to impede successful prosecutions (Kelly et al 2005, Young 1998, Wolbert Burgess and Holstrom 1974).
It was concluded that the kind of violence exemplified in the discourse of sexual murder has created a framework for making meaning of violence towards women by men, more generally. The sexual framing of violence against women constructed in the discourse and practiced in media and law enforcement has reversed the feminist proposition that rape is violence, so instead of understanding rape as a form of violence, we can understand violence against women as a form of rape
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