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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