Dead Woman Walking : Executed Women in England and Wales, 1900-55
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Routledge Revivals
ISBN-10
1138737003
ISBN-13
9781138737006
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 14th, 2019
Print length
384 Pages
Weight
646 grams
Dimensions
15.70 x 22.70 x 2.60 cms
Product Classification:
Social & cultural historyGender studies: womenPenology & punishment
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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.
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.
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