02526nam 2200553 450 991082299120332120200520144314.01-4438-6599-0(CKB)3710000000218177(EBL)1765541(SSID)ssj0001289999(PQKBManifestationID)12568982(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001289999(PQKBWorkID)11233850(PQKB)10200479(MiAaPQ)EBC1765541(Au-PeEL)EBL1765541(CaPaEBR)ebr10909475(CaONFJC)MIL636980(OCoLC)887508409(EXLCZ)99371000000021817720140828h20132013 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrWicked ladies provincial women, crime and the eighteenth-century English justice system /by Gregory J. DurstonNewcastle upon Tyne, England :Cambridge Scholars Publishing,2013.©20131 online resource (341 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4438-4269-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER ONE - INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER TWO - PROSECUTION AND PUNISHMENT; CHAPTER THREE - HOMICIDE AND ASSAULT; CHAPTER FOUR - INFANTICIDE AND ABORTION; CHAPTER FIVE - PROPERTY CRIME; CHAPTER SIX - ARSON AND COINING; CHAPTER SEVEN - GENERAL CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEXIn recent years, much has been published on women, crime and justice in English history. However, for a variety of reasons, particularly the ready availability of source material for the capital, such research has tended to have an overwhelmingly Metropolitan focus. This book aims to redress the balance for the 'long' eighteenth century by concentrating on women from outside the London area. Although vitally important to the wider country, the Metropolis always contained a small minority of t...Female offendersEnglandHistory18th centuryCriminal justice, Administration ofEnglandHistory18th centuryFemale offendersHistoryCriminal justice, Administration ofHistory364.374Durston Gregory1630160MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910822991203321Wicked ladies4086488UNINA