20. Is the law gender blind?
Lady Killers with Lucy Worsley
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The History of Criminal Justice News
There are several major shifts over this hundred year period in the way that criminal justice news is produced and also consumed. In the 1820s, as a case of Mary McKinnon shows, there were several different types of publication available. Over the course of the 19th century, newspapers became much more important in this landscape. Siki: I think nowadays, because everything's so digital, a lot of things do come on like social media. Now, in our 1920s cases, Edith Thompson and Marguerite Farmie, there's a lot of interest in intimate details. If they're going to put it out in the public, then that's not my fault to look at.
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