Women, Crime, and Custody in Victorian England
This book explores how the Victorians perceived and explained female crime, and how they responded to it--both in penal theory and prison practice. Victorian England women made up a far larger proportion of those known to be involved in crime than they do today: the nature of female criminality attracted considerable attention and preoccupied those trying to provide for women within the penal system. Zedner's rigorously researched study examines the extent to which gender-based ideologies influenced attitudes to female criminality. She charts the shift from the moral analyses dominant in the mid-nineteenth century to the interpretation of cri…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-820264-6
- EAN: 9780198202646
- Produktnummer: 22686284
- Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1992
- Seitenangabe: 376 S.
- Masse: H22.7 cm x B14.8 cm x D2.9 cm 662 g
- Gewicht: 662
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