Celebrating Kate: The criminal-celebrity of Sydney underworld figure, Kate Leigh
Combining historical study with cultural criminology, this paper analyses the criminal-celebrity of Sydney underworld figure Kate Leigh. It seeks to demonstrate how the three main factors of public resonance—crime type, context and image—created the celebrated criminality of Leigh. Without public re...
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