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Focuses on the key feature of women’s experience in an area often overlooked by crime historians, but that is becoming more popular with the modern attention

This study uses extant court records to investigate the relationships among crime, courts and the larger community during the 1870s. Class, gender experience an

Focuses on the key feature of women’s experience in an area often overlooked by crime historians, but that is becoming more popular with the modern attention

This monograph makes a major new contribution to the historiography of criminal justice in England and Wales by focusing on the intersection of the history of l

In the 1870s, a Kentish woman who had been repeatedly beaten by her lover retaliated by blinding him with sulphuric acid. The judge sentenced her to five years