Female Offenders at the Confluence of Medical and Penal Discourses: Towards a Gender-Specific Criminology (1860s-1920s)
The Victorian era was characterised by a fascination with the criminal’s psyche. In the late 1860s, this interest in the criminal mind fused with scientific and medical breakthroughs to create a hybrid, cross-disciplinary field focused on understanding the criminal. Criminology was born. This polyph...
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2018-06-01
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| Series: | Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/cve/3624 |
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