Cossins, Annie
Female Criminality
1. Introduction: ‘Dumb Brutes’ and Murderous Mothers
Annie Cossins
2. The Moral Panic Concept: Its History, Social Utility and Ability to Interpret Past Events
Annie Cossins
3. Regulation of the Female Body: Was Infanticide a Moral Panic of the Nineteenth Century?
Annie Cossins
4. The Moral Regulation of Infanticidal Mothers
Annie Cossins
5. The Implications of the Body for Female Criminality
Annie Cossins
Keywords: History, Social History, Crime and Society, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Gender Studies, Child Well-being, Sociology, general
- Author(s)
- Cossins, Annie
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2015
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 309 pages
- Category
- History
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137299420
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-45274-3