Dead Woman Walking
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1900-55
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Alternative Truth
Author_Anette Ballinger
Bloody Code
British justice
Capital Punishment
capital punishment history
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Chapter's Opening Quotation
Chapter’s Opening Quotation
Coroner's Court
Coroner’s Court
criminal justice system UK
death
death sentence
Double Trials
Edith's Letters
Edith’s Letters
england
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Female Law Breakers
Female Poisoner
feminist criminology
Foucauldian Feminist
gender and crime
gendered patterns in capital sentencing
Home Office Personnel
Home Town
infanticide cases
Informal Punishment
Judge's Stereotype
Judge’s Stereotype
life imprisonment
Lord Chief Justice Hewart
Male Co-defendant
murderers
Public Executions
Rosemary West
Southall Black Sisters
St Leonards
Strychnine Poisoning
wales
Woman Poisoner
women
women murderers
women offenders research
Women's Punishment
Women’s Punishment
Young Men
Zoora Shah
Product details
- ISBN 9781138737006
- Weight: 870g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jun 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This title was first published in 2000: Between 1900 and 1950 130 women were sentenced to death for murder in England and Wales. Only 12 of these women were actually executed. Thus, 91 per cent of women murderers had their sentence commuted, whereas if we examine the corresponding figures for men, only 39 per cent had their sentence commuted. It would appear that state servants working within the criminal justice system were far more reluctant to hang women than men. However, this text argues that a closer examination of this apparent discrepancy reveals it to be a misconception which has come about as a result of the statistics regarding infanticide. That is to say - unlike men - the vast majority of women murderers have killed their own child or children. Once this is taken into account we find that women who had murdered an adult had less hope of a reprieve than men. Thus, the author shows that the large proportion of women murderers as killers of their own children has created a false impression of how female murderers fared inside the criminal justice system.
Anette Ballinger
