A most diabolical deed': Infanticide and Irish society, 1850-1900.
Examining the phenomenon of infanticide in Ireland from 1850 to 1900, this title is based on a large sample of 4,645 individual cases of infant murder, attempted infanticide and concealment of birth. Through a variety of sources, attitudes towards the crime of infanticide and women accused of the of...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press USA
2015.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt18mbdtf |
Table of Contents:
- 'A melancholy thing' : an overview
- 'Dead children, like drowned sailors, tell no tales' : coroners' courts
- 'That species of crime' : criminal courts
- 'Rumour, with its hundred tongues' : the community
- 'News of the ghastly spectacle' : the press
- 'A very great escape' : prisons.