Female Offenders at the Confluence of Medical and Penal Discourses: Towards a Gender-Specific Criminology (1860s-1920s) by Alice Bonzom

“…Rather than annihilate traditional moral explanations of crime promoted by some reformers and civil servants, scientific theories merged with them and gave birth to institutional projects such as inebriate reformatories and asylums for the mentally deficient. Criminology and penology were, in the case of women, combined with psychiatry, biology and gynaecology. …”
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Droit pénal et crimes en Algérie : les alibis du pénal by Damien Scalia

“…Its advocates and architects put forward many purposes in its defence: penological objectives, historical challenges, the symbolic function, moral expectations and the cathartic effect. …”
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