Abstract

ABSTRACT While women 1 are seven times less likely to kill than men, they receive a disproportionate amount of media coverage compared to male killers. Scholarship on this demographic reifies gendered stereotypes, including assumptions that women are nurturers who killed to protect themselves and/or their children. Other research positions women killers as mentally ill, thus unable to take responsibility for their actions. We analyzed the 27th season of Snapped (2020), which focuses on women who kill, to understand how female murderers are portrayed in comparison to actual female murderers. Snapped was largely consistent with available data about women who kill. While we applaud the realistic portrayals that Snapped offers, we also contend that the show encourages viewers to denigrate more socially disadvantaged women typically featured in the show, and obscures the fact that men, not women, are overwhelmingly responsible for intimate partner violence and murder in the United States.

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