Female criminality : infanticide, moral panics and the female body /: infanticide, moral panics and the female body. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Annie Cossins.
• Authors: Cossins, Anne
• Contents: 1. Introduction: 'Dumb Brutes' and Murderous Mothers -- 2. The Moral Panic Concept: Its History, Social Utility and Ability to Interpret Past Events -- 3. Regulation of the Female Body: Was Infanticide a Moral Panic of the 1800s? -- 4. The Moral Regulation of Infanticidal Mothers -- 5. The Implications of the Body for Female Criminality.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 364.152; History; Infanticide -- Great Britain -- History; Female offenders -- Great Britain -- History; Women -- Great Britain -- Conduct of life -- History; Moral panics -- Great Britain -- History; Crime -- Great Britain -- Sociological aspects; Crime & criminology; Gender studies: women; Child welfare; Crime -- Sociological aspects; Female offenders; Infanticide; Moral panics; Women -- Conduct of life; Crime; Social Science -- Criminology; Social Science -- Gender Studies; Social Science -- Children's Studies; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Gender studies, gender groups; Sociology; Social history; Crime—Sociological aspects; Criminology; Sociology; History -- Social History; Social & cultural history; Great Britain; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137299420; 1137299428
• Related ISBNs: 9781349452743; 9781137299413; 113729941X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Print version record.
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