True crime podcasts are a newer addition to the media and true crime landscape, and
listenership is steadily growing. While other forms of true crime have been shown to …

Definitions of news are increasingly fraught in today's media environment, making audience
assessments of news-ness–the degree to which something is considered news–particularly …

Recent media and academic reports project rising levels of girls' violence and a narrowing
gender gap. In response, the authors investigate 21st century trends in girls' violence as …

Prior research suggests the media depict White female victims more sympathetically than
their minority counterparts, yet no researcher has yet examined this proposition at the …

Sexual and intimate partner violence (SIV) continues to be a public health crisis, particularly
among girls and women. Traditional and critical qualitative methodologies are often used to …

We explored how highly educated and middle-class Kenyan female immigrants perceive
their encounters with the police in the United States, including the decision to access the …

How Latina girls and women become entangled in the criminal justice system Despite
representing roughly 16 percent of incarcerated women, Latina women and girls are often …

Within the United States, there is an epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women.
Using data from the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) …

Although women have been “allowed” into policing, we must acknowledge that they are not
fully integrated until they are adequately represented at all levels. Women need to be able to …

ABSTRACT Gabby Petito, a 22-year-old white woman, went missing during a cross-country
road trip in September 2021. Police later found Petito's body in Wyoming and traced the …