Women killed to women who killed : femicide and the female serial killer on television through Sharp Objects (2018)‎

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As the science of crime and murder, criminology is recent yet most pivotal to the world of lawlessness.

It aims at categorising and catching a criminal.

It majorly focuses on the male serial killer as the most perilous type and looks at females as mostly victims.

For myriad scholars, the act of killing women by the opposite sex is known as femicide.

However, few believe that even women killing women is femicide, for it is not about the one committing the murder; it is about the one who is killed.

Though criminology did not give much thought to female murderers, this research attempts to help rectify that deficit.

The emphasis is to be laid on the female serial killer who targets women through the TV series adaptation of the American novel Sharp Objects since it portrays the mutated monstrous woman.