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Author Wilde, Nina, author

Title The monstering of Myra Hindley / Nina Wilde
Published Hook, Hampshire, United Kingdom : Waterside Press, 2016
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Contents Cover; Copyright and Publication Details; Table of Contents; About the author; Acknowledgements; Dedication; Foreword; The authors of the Foreword; Introduction; My personal connection with Myra; Structure of the book; Some words of encouragement; Timeline ; Cookham Wood; Suspect by association; A defective law; The English trial; The Moors Murders; Meeting Myra ; Vulnerable women ; The Outsider; Casual interaction; Two cases to compare ; Some other European comparisons; The Nature of Myra's Injustice; Misogyny, blackmail and abuse; Public and Political Involvement ; Justice versus politics
The Prisoner; Select Bibliography; Index; Cries For Help: Women Without a Voice, Women's Prisons in the 1970s, Myra Hindley and her Contemporaries; Holloway Prison: An Inside Story
Summary Fifty years after the Moors Murders and 15 years since Myra Hindley died in prison, after one of the longest sentences served by a woman, this book raises some delicate and searching questions. They include: "Why was Hindley treated differently?", "Why do we need to create demons?" and "What impact does this have on our whole notion of crime, punishment and justice?" Set against the political backlash of one of the most noto­rious cases in English criminal history, The Monstering of Myra Hindley is a perceptive, first-hand portrayal of the most talked-about and maligned of women. Nina Wilde invites readers to hold back any adverse preconceptions as she seeks to show how the media selected Hindley as a monster and the politics at play around her de-humanising captivity. She compares how things are done in some other European countries and how the UK itself routinely releases others equally bad (arguably worse) quietly and away from the public gaze. Everyone, the author included, recognises the plight of the victims but this should not be allowed to mask other wrongs that, with hindsight, become increasingly apparent in Hindley's case
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 8, 2017)
Subject Hindley, Myra.
SUBJECT Hindley, Myra fast
Subject Serial murders -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Life imprisonment -- Great Britain
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Great Britain
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
Criminal justice, Administration of
Life imprisonment
Serial murders
Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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