Female Criminality: Infanticide, Moral Panics And The Female Body

This is the first book to consider the moral regulation of the female body through an analysis of the crime of infanticide. An in-depth perspective from the nineteenth century to the present, Cossins provides a revealing insight into the history of a little-known but widespread social crime.

• | Author: A. Cossins
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Jan 22, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 309 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 113729941X
• | ISBN-13: 9781137299413