A study of juvenile female offenders within the reformatory and industrial system during the Vict...

Lombroso in the Americas

In offering a holistic analysis of the vast array of evidence and literature pertaining to the Wh...

This open access book explores the tragic case of the Torquay Murder of 1865, when the body of a ...

This book argues thattraditional images and practices associated with shame did not recede with t...

Written by a collection of internationally acknowledged experts, this rounded, coherent history o...

This book argues thattraditional images and practices associated with shame did not recede with t...

Scotland has often been regarded throughout history as 'the violent north', but how true is this ...

This introductory book offers a coherent history of twentieth century crime and the law in Britai...

A complete reappraisal of the scale and significance of female criminality in a period of major l...

Deviance, Disorder and Music in Modern Britain and America is a study of the perceived collision ...

This introductory book offers a coherent history of twentieth century crime and the law in Britai...

This book shows how interpretations of suicidal motives were guided by gendered expectations of b...

Beyond Deviant Damsels offers a new interpretation of women's criminality in the nineteenth centu...