'These viragoes are no less cruel than the lads'. Young women, gangs and violence in late Victorian Manchester and Salford

Young women formed only a small minority of those convicted of gang-related crimes of violence in the Manchester conurbation in the last three decades of the nineteenth century. Nonetheless, press reports and court records document both their occasional participation in confrontations between rival...

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Main Author: Davies, Andrew 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic/Print Article
Language:English
Published: 1999
In: The British journal of criminology
Year: 1999, Volume: 39, Issue: 1, Pages: 72-89
Online Access: Volltext (doi)
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