Female criminality : infanticide, moral panics and the female body / Annie Cossins, Associate Professor of LAw, University of New South Wales, Australia.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 270 -291)
Contents:
"Dumb Brutes" and murderous mothers -- The moral panic concept: its history, social utility and ability to interpret past events -- Regulation of the female body: was infanticide a moral panic of the nineteenth century? -- The moral regulation of infanticidal mothers -- The implications of the body for female criminality.
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