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Women, Crime, and Custody in Victorian England (Hardcover)
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Women, Crime, and Custody in Victorian England (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
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This book explores how the Victorians perceived and explained
female crime, and how they responded to it - both in penal theory
and prison practice. In 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. Lucia 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 criminality as biological or psychological
disorder prevalent later. Using a wide variety of sources -
including prison regulations, diaries, letters, punishment books,
grievances and appeals, Dr Zedner explores both penological theory
and the realities of prison life. This is a rich and scholarly
study, which reveals much about the relationship between responses
to female criminality and prevailing social values and concerns.
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