Dainty Hands: Perceptions of Women and Crime in Sherlock Holmes Stories

For the last 150 years, conventional wisdom among criminologists saw crime as a predominantly male phenomenon. Recent socio-historical research has challenged this premise, showing a decline in the presence of women in the process as criminal defendants. Cultural studies have attributed this decline...

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Main Author: Aviram, Hadar (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: 2011
In:Year: 2011
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