Women, Crime and Justice in England since 1660

Shani D''Cruze and Louise A. Jackson provide students with a lively overview of women''s relationship to the criminal justice system in England, exploring key debates in the regulation of ''respectable'' and ''deviant'' femininities over the last four centuries. Major issues include:

• attitudes towards murder and infanticide * prostitution
• the decline of witchcraft belief * sexual violence
• the '...