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Annie Cossins, Female criminality: Infanticide, moral panics, and the female body

Annie Cossins, Female criminality: Infanticide, moral panics, and the female body 594 Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 48(4) Annie Cossins, Female criminality: Infanticide, moral panics, and the female body. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, 2015; 302 pp. ISBN 978-1-137-29941-3, $100 USD (hbk) Reviewed by: Chelsea Neumann, Duke University, USA; and Susan Hatters Friedman, University of Auckland, New Zealand Female Criminality examines the role of the female body in the creation and enforcement of gendered criminal justice, particularly as it relates to infanticide and crimes against children. In five chapters, the book describes moral panic, baby-farming, and infanticide in 19th-century Victorian Britain, concluding with a discussion of unjust convictions of alleged female murderers during the late 1990s and early 2000s. The book provides an in- depth analysis of the historical legal and sociological implications for mothers who killed their children in Great Britain as well as a group of female baby-farmers executed for their misdeeds. This society simultaneously allowed and condemned the practice of baby-farming (an alternative childcare arrangement in which mothers paid others to care for and feed their children while away working for a living). The author describes that this social phenomenon became an opportunity for a few doctors to ‘‘increase the influence of the medical profession by attacking http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology SAGE

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SAGE
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© The Author(s) 2015
ISSN
0004-8658
eISSN
1837-9273
DOI
10.1177/0004865815600608
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594 Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 48(4) Annie Cossins, Female criminality: Infanticide, moral panics, and the female body. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, 2015; 302 pp. ISBN 978-1-137-29941-3, $100 USD (hbk) Reviewed by: Chelsea Neumann, Duke University, USA; and Susan Hatters Friedman, University of Auckland, New Zealand Female Criminality examines the role of the female body in the creation and enforcement of gendered criminal justice, particularly as it relates to infanticide and crimes against children. In five chapters, the book describes moral panic, baby-farming, and infanticide in 19th-century Victorian Britain, concluding with a discussion of unjust convictions of alleged female murderers during the late 1990s and early 2000s. The book provides an in- depth analysis of the historical legal and sociological implications for mothers who killed their children in Great Britain as well as a group of female baby-farmers executed for their misdeeds. This society simultaneously allowed and condemned the practice of baby-farming (an alternative childcare arrangement in which mothers paid others to care for and feed their children while away working for a living). The author describes that this social phenomenon became an opportunity for a few doctors to ‘‘increase the influence of the medical profession by attacking

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Australian & New Zealand Journal of CriminologySAGE

Published: Dec 1, 2015

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