Ebook: Criminal Women 1850-1920: Researching the Lives of Britain's Female Offenders

Cover; Book Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; PART 1 -- BACKGROUND; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Women and Crime; Chapter 3: Women and Punishment; Chapter 4: Women in the Prison System; Chapter 5: Women and Post-Release Supervision; PART 2 -- CASE STUDIES OF CRIMINAL WOMEN; Chapter 6: Amelia Sach; Chapter 7: Violet Watson; Chapter 8: Ann Griffith; Chapter 9: Ann Nicholls; Chapter 10: Eleanor Boniface alias Ann Knight; Chapter 11: Mary Ann Gannon; Chapter 12: Eliza Conner and Mary Leonard; Chapter 13: Ellen Dwyer and Lottie Child; Chapter 14: Emily Swann; Chapter 15: Elizabeth Dillon.;Women are among the hardest individuals to trace through the historical record and this is especially true of female offenders who had a vested interest in not wanting to be found. That is why this thought-provoking and accessible handbook by Lucy Williams and Barry Godfrey is of such value. It looks beyond the crimes and the newspaper reports of women criminals in the Victorian era in order to reveal the reality of their personal and penal journeys, and it provides a guide for researchers who are keen to explore this intriguing and neglected subject.