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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"gender and crime"”.
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Gender, crime and the local courts in Kent, 1460-1560
This thesis examines gender differentiation in prosecutions for minor offences in local secular and ecclesiastical courts in Kent from 1460 to 1560. Chapter one explains the need for research on gender and crime in local courts, and for studies bridging the historiographical gap between medieval …
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"The Case of Mary Phagan,'A Story About the Story of a Murder': Constructing a Crime"
… years, her employer, Leo Frank, would be tried and convicted for her murder. Another employee, Jim Conley, a black janitor originally implicated in the crime, provided the evidence used to convict Frank. In my thesis, I explain the multiple identities created to describe the victim and her …