[ABSTRAK
Media massa merupakan alat komunikasi massa yang dapat mengkonstruksi realitas dalam masyarakat. Akan tetapi media massa cenderung bias dalam memberitakan suatu berita kejahatan, terutama pemberitaan tentang perempuan pelaku kejahatan. Penulisan ini menggunakan data skunder yang berasal dari penelitian-penelitian terdahulu, untuk melihat representasi perempuan pelaku kejahatan dimedia massa dan menganalisis bagaimana konstruksi yang dibangun media massa terhadap perempuan pelaku kejahatan. Hasil dari analisis tersebut adalah perempuan pelaku cenderung direpresentasikan dan dikonstruksikan negatif oleh media massa, sehingga membangun realitas palsu dan mempertegas stereotypes terhadap relasi kuasa yang tidak seimbang di masyarakat.

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ABSTRACT
Mass media is a tool which can construct reality in society. But mass media is biased in reporting a crime news, especially news about women offenders. This paper using secondary data who derived from previous studies, to see the representation of women offenders and analyze how the mass media construction about women offenders in mass media. The results of the analysis are female offenders tend to be represented and negative constructed by the media, so as to build a false reality and reinforced stereotypes against unbalanced power relations in society., Mass media is a tool which can construct reality in society. But mass media is biased in reporting a crime news, especially news about women offenders. This paper using secondary data who derived from previous studies, to see the representation of women offenders and analyze how the mass media construction about women offenders in mass media. The results of the analysis are female offenders tend to be represented and negative constructed by the media, so as to build a false reality and reinforced stereotypes against unbalanced power relations in society.]