TY  - JOUR
TI  - Women, violent crime and criminal justice in Georgian Wales
AU  - WATSON, KATHERINE D.
PY  - 2013
PB  - Cambridge University Press (CUP)
LA  - eng
AB  - This article examines encounters of women with the criminal justice system in Wales during the century before the Courts of Great Sessions were abolished in 1830. Drawing on evidence from cases of sexual assault and homicide, it argues that women who killed were rarely convicted or punished harshly. A gendered discretion of sorts also acted against rape victims, as trials never resulted in conviction. Using violence as a lens, the paper reveals a distinctively Welsh approach to criminal justice, and offers quantitative evidence on which further comparative studies of the history of law and crime in England and Wales may be based.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/s0268416013000246
DO  - 10.1017/s0268416013000246
T2  - Continuity and change: a journal of social structure, law and demography in past societies
VL  - 28
IS  - 2
SN  - 1469-218X
SN  - 0268-4160
SP  - 245-272
UR  - https://www.pollux-fid.de/r/cr-10.1017/s0268416013000246
H1  - Pollux (Fachinformationsdienst Politikwissenschaft)
ER  -