Dr Jennifer Silcox

Profile

Jennifer Silcox (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the department of Childhood and Youth Studies and an Affiliate Scientist with MINDS of London-Middlesex (a social innovation lab engaged in youth-participatory action research to address the problem of mental-ill health facing transitional-aged youth). She explores harm reduction approaches to youth substance use, the marginalization of youth and the legal system, and the intersections of age, race, and gender, among other identities in media portrayals of youth crime and violence.

Research

Publications

• (2023) Andersen, T., Silcox, J., & Isom, D.A. Exploring U.S. News Media Portrayals of Girls’ Violence in the 1980s and 1990s: The Emergence of a Moral Panic. In K. Boyle & S. Berridge (eds.). Routledge Companion to Gender, Media, and Violence (2nd ed., pp. 95-104). New York: Routledge.
• (2023) Silcox, J. Institutionalized ‘Bad Girls’: Adolescent Female Folk Devils in Canadian Newspapers between 1991 and 2012. Feminist Media Studies, 24(2), 207-223.
• (2022) Silcox, J. Youth Crime & Depictions of Youth Crime in Canada: Are News Depictions Purely Moral Panic? Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue Canadienne de Sociologie, 59(1), 96-114. *Wiley top downloaded article (one of the most downloaded articles during its first 12 months of publication)
• (2021) Andersen, T., Silcox, J., & Isom, D.A. Constructing Bad Girls: Representations of Violent Girls in the Canadian and U.S. News Media. Deviant Behavior, 42(3), 353-365.
• (2019) Silcox, J. Are Canadian Girls Becoming More Violent? An Examination of Integrated Criminal Court Survey Statistics. Criminal Justice and Policy Review, 30(3), 477-502.

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