Focuses on the key feature of women’s experience in an area often overlooked by crime historians, but that is becoming more popular with the modern attention

Focuses on the key feature of women’s experience in an area often overlooked by crime historians, but that is becoming more popular with the modern attention

Using detailed case studies, Beyond Deviant Damsels undermines many of the conventional assumptions about how women committed crime in the nineteenth century. P

This study, first published in 1982, is concerned with the nature of crime in nineteenth-century Britain, and explores the response of the community and the pol

This monograph makes a major new contribution to the historiography of criminal justice in England and Wales by focusing on the intersection of the history of l