A Psychosocial Perspective of Immigrant Female Killers in TV Series
A Psychosocial Perspective of Immigrant Female Killers in TV Series

Author(s): Anna Zaptsi
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Psychology, Media studies, Criminology, Migration Studies
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Female criminality; mass media; psychological disorders; psychology; television series;
Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to investigate immigrant female killers on five American television series, from a psycho-social perspective, broadcasted in Spain from 2000 to 2015. On the one hand, in light of exploring the profile of female criminality in order to reveal the bias in fictional female characters, whenever they commit death crimes voluntarily, and, on the other hand, to raise awareness of the most common personality disorders that they tend to have, so as to foster a socially responsible approach of the media production. The selection of the research topic, responds to the striking impacts of the combination of media and psychology in the human kind and in society, and its power in establishing stereotypes of female gender, whenever female protagonists appear on the small screen. Whenever television programs focused on immigrants, a massive employment of negative stereotypes has been observed assigned to the image of the immigrant in all series and also a correlation between reality and fiction.

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