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Female Criminality

Infanticide, Moral Panics and The Female Body
By:A. Cossins
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781137299413
eText ISBN:9781137299420
Edition:0
Copyright:2015
Format:Reflowable

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This is the first book to consider the moral regulation of the female body through an analysis of the crime of infanticide. An in-depth perspective from the nineteenth century to the present, Cossins provides a revealing insight into the history of a little-known but widespread social crime.