Title: Women, crime, and character
First published: 2008
Description: This work draws on law, literature, philosophy and social history to explore fundamental changes in ideas of selfhood gender and social order in 18th and 19th century England. Lacey argues that these changes underpinned a radical shift in mechanisms of responsibility-attribution, with implications for the criminalisation of women.
Subjects: Reputation (Law), Criminal liability, Legal status, laws, Social aspects, Feminist jurisprudence, Women, Women, legal status, laws, etc., Law, Characters, Moll Flanders, Tess Durbeyfield, Female offenders, History, Law and literature, Social change in literature, Social change
LC classification: K349 .L33 2008