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Contemporary studies have concluded that women are far less likely to kill than men and that when women do kill, they do so within the family. Debauched, Desperate, Deranged: Women Who Killed, London 1674-1913 examines the evolution of this pattern in the over 1400 trials in which women were prosecuted for homicide in London from the late seventeenth century until just before the First World War. Which deaths were considered homicides and in what circumstances women were culpable illustrates profound changes in the prevailing assumptions about women. The outcomes of trials and the portrayals of these women in the press illuminate changes in perceptions of women's status and their physical and mental limitations. Debauched, Desperate, Deranged breaks new ground in existing studies of gender and homicide, using a long time frame to discern which trends are brief anomalies and which represent significant change or continuity. 0Debauched, Desperate, Deranged is the first empirical, quantitatively as well as qualitatively based study of women and homicide from the seventeenth century to the twentieth. It presents new and significant conclusions on changing incidence of maternal homicides and the remarkable constancy of spousal homicides.

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This book presents the first comprehensive study of over 120 printed news reports of murders and infanticides committed by early modern women. It offers an interdisciplinary analysis of female homicide in post-Reformation news formats ranging from ballads to newspapers. Individual cases are illuminated in relation to changing legal, religious, and political contexts, as well as the dynamic growth of commercial crime-news and readership.

Women murderers --- Murder --- Criminal homicide --- Killing (Murder) --- Homicide --- Female homicide offenders --- Murderesses --- Women homicide offenders --- Female offenders --- Murderers --- History

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When is killing an abusive partner an act of murder, and when is it self-defense? How does our criminal justice system deal with battered women who kill, and to what effect? Rachel Schneider traces the lives of women who sought clemency after being imprisoned for killing their abusers, drawing on a series of intimate interviews to explore the circumstances leading up to the killings, the women’s experiences in the courts and in prison, and the diverging paths of those whose sentences were commuted and those who will spend their lives behind bars.

Women murderers --- Abused women --- Psychology. --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Battered women --- Victims of crimes --- Women --- Battered woman syndrome --- Female homicide offenders --- Murderesses --- Women homicide offenders --- Female offenders --- Murderers

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This is a study of the 1933 killing by the Papin sisters of their mistress and her daughter. The book discusses the idea that the obsessive recurrence of the case makes it a prism through which to examine multiple aspects of French culture.

Murder --- Women murderers --- Murder in literature --- Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- Social Sciences --- Female homicide offenders --- Murderesses --- Women homicide offenders --- Female offenders --- Murderers --- Criminal homicide --- Killing (Murder) --- Homicide --- History --- Papin, Christine, --- Papin, Léa, --- History.