Gender, Crime and Judicial Discretion, 1780-1830 by Deirdre Palk - 9780861932825

Gender, Crime and Judicial Discretion, 1780-1830Author(s): Deirdre Palk\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Royal Historical Society\nISBN-13: 9780861932825, 978-0861932825\nSynopsis\nCrimes in England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were both committed and judged differently, depending on whether the culprit was male or female.\n Based on a wide range of primary material, this book follows the journeys of men and women implicated in the capital crimes of shoplifting, pickpocketing and distributing forged banknotes, through their trials and on to death, transportation, imprisonment or even to complete freedom. This study of the English judicial system in London provides a detailed view of its complex workings, with particular attention to the role, and apparently more lenient treatment, of women. The evidence presented also sheds light on the complex decision-making policies of a criminal justice administration burdened by the w.