Women, Crime, and Custody in Victorian England by Lucia Zedner

Women, Crime, and Custody in Victorian England

Lucia Zedner

376 pages first pub 1991 (view editions)

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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. Victorian England women made up a far larger proportion of those known to be involved in crime than...

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