Add to ORKGLittle is known about the women who were convicted of violence offences in Victoria during the 19th and early 20th century. Unless a woman was executed (there was a total of five women executed in Victoria), attention has bypassed female homicide offenders. Using the Central Female Prisoner Records of Victoria, 95 women have been identified as homicide offenders between 1860 and 1920. Using this as the beginning, this presentation will consider who these women were and why the study of the women who weren’t victims of the gallows offers a deeper understanding of the operation of and women’s place within the criminal justice system
The murderess in the twenty-first century is a figure of particular cultural fascination; she is the...
Knowledge of women’s pathways to serious offending, including homicide, is limited. This study contr...
Over the past decade, homicide law reform surrounding the partial defences to murder has animated de...
Little is known about the women who were convicted of violence offences in Victoria during the 19th ...
Investigations of women's offending have, in historical as well as criminological literature, bypass...
In late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century London, the number of women prosecuted for murder w...
In the last three decades the subject of female criminality has received a great deal of attention. ...
The history of women and crime is a poorly documented aspect of the lives of Irish women in the nin...
The use of longitudinal data from the criminal records of a sample of 6,042 female prisoners in nine...
of homicide. One should start such a discussion with an acknowledgment of the relative rarity of suc...
Older and elderly women predominantly appear in criminological literature as victims of crime. Howev...
Contemporary studies that focus on intimate homicide assume that patterns of policing, prosecution a...
© The Author(s) 2019. This paper examines imprisonment data from Victoria between 1860 and 1920 to g...
This thesis studies aspects of women's criminal behaviour during the period from 1780-1830, using th...
M.A.According to the Department of Correctional Services 1368 women were imprisoned on charges of cu...
The murderess in the twenty-first century is a figure of particular cultural fascination; she is the...
Knowledge of women’s pathways to serious offending, including homicide, is limited. This study contr...
Over the past decade, homicide law reform surrounding the partial defences to murder has animated de...
Little is known about the women who were convicted of violence offences in Victoria during the 19th ...
Investigations of women's offending have, in historical as well as criminological literature, bypass...
In late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century London, the number of women prosecuted for murder w...
In the last three decades the subject of female criminality has received a great deal of attention. ...
The history of women and crime is a poorly documented aspect of the lives of Irish women in the nin...
The use of longitudinal data from the criminal records of a sample of 6,042 female prisoners in nine...
of homicide. One should start such a discussion with an acknowledgment of the relative rarity of suc...
Older and elderly women predominantly appear in criminological literature as victims of crime. Howev...
Contemporary studies that focus on intimate homicide assume that patterns of policing, prosecution a...
© The Author(s) 2019. This paper examines imprisonment data from Victoria between 1860 and 1920 to g...
This thesis studies aspects of women's criminal behaviour during the period from 1780-1830, using th...
M.A.According to the Department of Correctional Services 1368 women were imprisoned on charges of cu...
The murderess in the twenty-first century is a figure of particular cultural fascination; she is the...
Knowledge of women’s pathways to serious offending, including homicide, is limited. This study contr...
Over the past decade, homicide law reform surrounding the partial defences to murder has animated de...