{"product_id":"women-crime-and-custody-in-victorian-england-9780198202646","title":"Women, Crime, and Custody in Victorian England","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Lucia Zedner\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: OUP Oxford\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Criminology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explores how the Victorians perceived and explained female crime, and how they responded to it--both in penal theory and prison practice. Victorian England women made up a far larger proportion of those known to be involved in crime than they do today: the nature of female criminality attracted considerable attention and preoccupied those trying to provide for women within the penal system. Zedner's rigorously researched study examines the extent to which gender-based ideologies influenced attitudes to female criminality. She charts the shift from the moral analyses dominant in the mid-nineteenth century to the interpretation of criminality as biological or psychological disorder prevalent later. Using a wide variety of sources--including prison regulations, diaries, letters, punishment books, grievances and appeals--Zedner explores both penological theory and the realities of prison life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"OUP Oxford","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47591863353495,"sku":"9780198202646","price":19972.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780198202646.webp?v=1774974900","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/women-crime-and-custody-in-victorian-england-9780198202646","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}