Wicked Ladies Provincial Women Crime and the Eighteenth Century English Justice System 1st Edition by Gregory J Durston ISBN 1443842699 9781443842693
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ISBN 10: 1443842699
ISBN 13: 9781443842693
Author: Gregory J Durston
In 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 the country’s female offenders and defendants, albeit a significantly higher percentage of the latter than its share of the national population. The capital also had a rather different criminal justice and policing system to that found in the rest of the country at this time.
The book focuses on women’s experiences in provincial England as both the perpetrators of various crimes and as suspects or defendants in the country’s criminal justice system. The areas considered range from the West Country to the Scottish Border, and the offences examined include all of the major crimes, such as murder and theft, as well as some more arcane forms of deviance, including arson and coining. The factors that prompted women to offend, their likelihood of exposure when they did so, and their treatment before the courts and in the penal system are all considered in detail.
In particular, the book examines the gendered differences found in female crime when compared to that of their male counterparts, and how women’s experiences of the era’s justice system differed from those of men. It also compares provincial women to those found in the Metropolis in these respects. Extensive use is made of primary sources in portraying the lives of female criminals from Kent to Cumberland, while comparison is also made with women from other parts of the British Isles and beyond, so that the respective roles of structural determinants and national ‘culture’ in crime and justice can be considered
Wicked Ladies Provincial Women Crime and the Eighteenth Century English Justice System 1st Table of contents:
Chapter 1: Introduction: Women and Crime in Eighteenth-Century England
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Context and scope of study
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Sources and methodology
Chapter 2: Provincial Women and the Social Context of Crime
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Women’s roles and social positions
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Economic and social pressures influencing crime
Chapter 3: Types of Crimes Committed by Women
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Theft and property crimes
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Violent crimes and lesser offenses
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Sexual crimes and social taboos
Chapter 4: The Legal Process and Women’s Experiences
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Arrest and trial procedures
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Representation and defense
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Sentencing and punishments
Chapter 5: Gender and Justice: How Women Were Treated
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Gender biases in the justice system
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Comparison with male offenders
Chapter 6: Community Responses and Female Criminality
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Public perception of women criminals
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Role of community and social control
Chapter 7: Case Studies of Notorious Women Offenders
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Detailed examination of specific cases
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Insights into personal circumstances
Chapter 8: Conclusion: Women, Crime, and Justice in Historical Perspective
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Summary of findings
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Implications for understanding gender and crime history
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