Female Criminality

Infanticide, Moral Panics and The Female Body

Autor: Annie Cossins

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Editura: Palgrave Macmillan

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This book considers one of the main crimes with which women are associated, infanticide and child mu...

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Autor

Annie Cossins

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2015

Pagini

302

EAN

9781137299413

ISBN

113729941X

Enbook ID

05160074

Editura

Palgrave Macmillan

Greutate

504

Dimensiuni

219 x 144 x 20

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This book considers one of the main crimes with which women are associated, infanticide and child murder. Beginning its journey in the nineteenth century, the book interrogates the history of a little-known, widespread social crime to inform the present, interrogating the historical laws governing illegitimacy and infanticide as a form of moral regulation and the role of the sexed female body in justifying those laws. Female Criminality analyses the relationships between men and women, the working and middle classes, the medical establishment, media, and judges, juries and convicts, to extend the social utility of the moral panic concept by providing a causal foundation for the occurrence of moral panics. Crucially, it identifies that the 'folk devil', the subject of Britain's first moral panic concerning children, was a sexed body whose qualities were so monstrous and hellish that the image of the heartless, evil woman who can turn her hand to murder was cemented into public consciousness. So much so, the 'folk devil' became the favourite subject of psychiatry and other medical disciplines and was used by prosecutors to influence the (wrongful) convictions of mothers accused of multiple infant-murder. Exploring how cultural values attributed to the female body are still associated with mothers who commit infanticide and multiple infant deaths in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, this book will appeal to scholars of Criminology, Law, History and Gender Studies.

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