1st Edition
Dead Woman Walking Executed Women in England and Wales, 1900-55
By Anette Ballinger
Copyright 2000
384 Pages
by
Routledge
384 Pages
by
Routledge
384 Pages
by
Routledge
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This title was first published in 2000: Between 1900 and 1950 130 women were sentenced to death for murder in England and Wales. Only 12 of these women were actually executed. Thus, 91 per cent of women murderers had their sentence commuted, whereas if we examine the corresponding figures for men, only 39 per cent had their sentence commuted. It would appear that state servants working... Read more
1. Introduction. 2. From Antiquity to Modernity: A Social History of Capital Punishment and Gender. 3. Beyond Traditional and Revisionist Theory: Feminist Theory and the Power to Punish. 4. Women as Child-Killers: Four Case-Studies. 5. Women Killing other Women. 6. Women Who Kill their Male Partners. 7. Conclusion.
Biography
Anette Ballinger
