Lynndie england biography examples

Posted on 26 May 2023 by Susanne Knittel
in: Type: Interview. Keywords: gender, media, representation, sexual abuse, terrorism, torture, and violence.

Lynndie England, who was a twenty-one-year-old private in the American army in 2003, is one of the three women soldiers charged with and convicted of abusing and torturing Iraqis in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.

Among the seven convicted American soldiers, England appears in many of the leaked photographs, leading to her becoming “the face of the scandal” (Brockes), and thus the object of great attention and even obsession in the media. This particular interview with The Guardian presents a profile of Lynndie England which both features and goes beyond common tropes pertaining to the figure of the perpetrator, in general, and the female perpetrator, in specific.

The tendency to psychologize perpetrators and explain their actions in terms of psychopathology has been pervasive in both criminology and p