Debauched, desperate, deranged : women who killed, London 1674-1913 / Carolyn A. Conley.
Debauched, desperate, deranged : women who killed, London 1674-1913 / Carolyn A. Conley.
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Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2020.
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G 2020/5020
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English
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x, 227 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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Publisher
Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Edition
First edition.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2020.
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Summary
Contemporary studies have concluded that women are far less likely to kill than men and that when women do kill, they do so within the family. Debauched, Desperate, Deranged: Women Who Killed, London 1674-1913 examines the evolution of this pattern in the over 1400 trials in which women were prosecuted for homicide in London from the late seventeen...
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Debauched, desperate, deranged : women who killed, London 1674-1913 / Carolyn A. Conley.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-224) and index.
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©2020
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G 2020/5020
Record Identifier
74VKaJmE8l6X
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaJmE8l6X
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ISBN
9780198863038
DDC
364.15230942
MMS ID
991024368717602626