Criminology
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The Ordeal of Sarah Chesham and the Myth of Sally Arsenic
Between 1847 and 1851, a series of criminal trials took place in Essex, England, involving a number of women accused…
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Female Poisoners in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England Crimes
Three Essex women were accused of poisoning their family members in the mid-nineteenth-century.
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Goth Subculture Victimisation and the Hate Crime Framework
The article will conclude that although there are inherent problems with classifying attacks upon goths as hate crimes, it may…
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The Black Widows Veiled in Their Web of Darkness and Murder
The fascinating phenomenon of the Black Widow, it is worth a brief overview of women’s escalating role in the world…
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The Murderous Insanity of Love: Sex, Madness and the Law
The medical community also supported religious doctrine by declaring that nonconformist sexual behaviour was a form of insanity.
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An Introduction to Framing Female Killers in Contemporary Film
Given classical cinema’s obsession with sexual hierarchy, feminist film critics could choose the somewhat obvious task of amassing more and…
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The Strange and Gothic Tale of Cannibalism by Consent
Suppose that there is a statutory regime that did not punish cannibalism and only lightly punished assisted suicide. May the…
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Archaeology, History, Crime and Punishment
Murder, assault, thievery, fraud — for as long as there have been groups of humans living together, these and many…
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The British Infanticide: A Poisonous Motive to Murder
The surprising results of this research in the Times of London is that in nineteenth-century Britain many families turned to…
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The Crimes of Outcast Women in Fremantle, 1900 to 1939
The female inebriate posed a particular dilemma for society: the weakness of the will in women, it was argued, had…
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Execution and its Aftermath in the Nineteenth-Century
This article explores the history of execution and its aftermath across the nineteenth-century British Empire
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Mysterious Arsenic Poisonings in Rural and Secluded Essex
The British public first became aware of what would eventually be known as the Essex poisoning ring in the summer…
