Women, Crime, and Custody in Victorian England

by Lucia Zedner

This book explores how the Victorians perceived and explained female crime, and how they responded to it--both in penal theory and prison practice. Victorian England women made up a far larger proportion of those known to be involved in crime than they do today: the nature of female criminality attracted considerable attention and preoccupied those trying to provide for women within the penal system. Zedner's rigorously researched study examines the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198202644
• ISBN13: 9780198202646
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.9"