...This chapter reviews the book Women, Crime, and Character: From Moll Flanders to Tess of the D'Urbervilles (2008), by Nicola Lacey. In her historical narrative, Lacey explores the British public's fascination with female crime and extreme mental states, the restrictions to women's...

... liberation thesis Maher Lisa self defense gender inequality feminist criminology antifeminist backlash female crime and violence Over the past few decades, feminist criminology has done much to advance our knowledge about the complex intersections among gender, sex, and crime. Early feminist...

... of analysis Prime Suspect British series Collins Patricia Hill women in real world policing Prime Suspect television series gender female crime genre cultural productions social justice progressive moral fiction In this chapter, we develop our framework for analyzing Prime Suspect...

... Ichiko Ōsugi Sakae sexual violence and crime Abe Sada marginalized women menstruation female crime insanity defense family women on the evening of April 15 sometime during the Taisho era (1912–1926), a twenty-seven-year-old woman living near Kyoto sat in her room, thinking about...

... and Criminality in Imperial Germany, 1873–1914. ” Criminal Justice History 6: 151–75. Kowalsky, Sharon A.   2003 . “ Who’s Responsible for Female Crime: Gender, Deviance and the Development of Soviet Social Norms in Revolutionary Russia. ” Russian Review 62 (3): 366–86...

... of black female crime to emerge. Thus, the body of “Negro crime”—a subcategory of race-based criminality—demonstrated racial and gendered prejudices and a desire to create causal links between the Negros' moral, mental, sexual, and biological “inferiorities,” and their “inherent” predisposition toward...