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 01, 2015
• • Number of Pages: 309 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1349452742
• • ISBN-13: 9781349452743