A most diabolical deed': Infanticide and Irish society, 1850-1900.

Examining the phenomenon of infanticide in Ireland from 1850 to 1900, this title is based on a large sample of 4,645 individual cases of infant murder, attempted infanticide and concealment of birth. Through a variety of sources, attitudes towards the crime of infanticide and women accused of the of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Place of publication not identified] : Oxford University Press USA, 2015.
Temas:
1800-1899
Infanticide > Ireland > History > 19th century.
Infanticide > Ireland > Case studies.
Infanticide > Law and legislation > Ireland > History > 19th century.
Infanticide > history
Confidentiality > history
History, 19th Century
Infanticide > Irlande > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Infanticide > Irlande > Études de cas.
Médecine > Histoire > 19e siècle.
HISTORY > Europe > Ireland.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
Infanticide
Infanticide > Law and legislation
Barnamord > Irland > 1800-talet.
Brottslingar.
Levnadsförhållanden.
Infanticide > Ireland > 19th century.
Criminals.
Living conditions.
Barnamord > historia.
Kvinnliga mördare > historia.
Ireland.
Ireland
Irlande.
Case studies
History
Narratives.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 'A melancholy thing' : an overview
  • 'Dead children, like drowned sailors, tell no tales' : coroners' courts
  • 'That species of crime' : criminal courts
  • 'Rumour, with its hundred tongues' : the community
  • 'News of the ghastly spectacle' : the press
  • 'A very great escape' : prisons.

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