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Gender and Punishment: Female Criminality in the 19th Century

The lecture “Gender and Punishment: Female Criminality in the 19th Century” analyzed specific repressive methods used against women who committed crimes in the context of industrial transformation that took place in Europe and North America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Moreover, public and intellectual perception of female criminality of that period was outlined, as well as functions of modernized prisons in the 1800s. Why did some contemporaries believe that women criminals were more dangerous than male offenders? Which was considered to be a typical female crime during the nineteenth century? What everyday life looked like in women’s prisons during the Victorian era? These are some of the questions that the lecturer tried answer.

gender history, history of punishment

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