Title Women, crime, and custody in Victorian England / Lucia Zedner

Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1991

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Description 364 pages ; 22 cm Series Oxford historical monographs Oxford historical monographs. Contents Normal and deviant women -- Explaining female crime -- Women and penal theory -- Women in local prisons, 1850-1877 -- Female convict prisons, 1852-1898 -- Habitual drunkenness and the reformatory experiment, 1898-1914 -- Not bad but mad : the discovery of 'feeble-mindedness' Analysis England Women Crimes Crime and criminology Gender Modern history c 1750 to c 1914 Social history Notes Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [328]-358) and index Subject Female offenders -- England -- History -- 19th century. Female offenders -- England -- History. Female offenders -- Great Britain -- History. Reformatories for women -- England -- History -- 19th century. Reformatories for women -- England -- History. Reformatories for women -- Great Britain -- History. Women prisoners -- England -- History -- 19th century. Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- England -- History -- 19th century. Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- England -- History. Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Great Britain -- History. LC no. 92136980 ISBN 0198202644

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