Carolyn Conley, "Debauched, Desperate, Deranged: Women Who Killed, London 1674-1913" (Oxford UP, 2020)
b'Today we speak to\\xa0Carolyn Conley, Professor Emerita from the University of Alabama \\u2013 Birmingham, about her new book\\xa0Debauched, Desperate, Deranged: Women Who Killed, London 1674-1913\\xa0(Oxford UP, 2020). This book examines the over 1400 trials of women accused of homicide in London from 1674-1913, using trial records as well as newspaper, pamphlets and other media to analyse the changing image of the female killer. Conley is the author of\\xa0The Unwritten Law: Criminal Justice in Victorian Kent\\xa0(Oxford\\xa0UP, 1991); Melancholy Accidents: The Meaning of Violence in Post-Famine Ireland (Lexington Books, 1999); and\\xa0Certain Other Countries: Homicide and National Identity in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, 1867- 92\\xa0(Ohio State University Press, 2007). This work, a sort of capstone for her career, traces the development of the criminal prosecution and punishment of women from the early modern era to the early twentieth century.\\nJana Byars\\xa0is the Academic Director of Netherlands: International Perspectives on Sexuality and Gender.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law'