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No explanation needed: Gendered narratives of violent crime (2023)
Book Chapter
Brown, S. E. (2023). No explanation needed: Gendered narratives of violent crime. In S. Banwel, L. Black, D. K. Cecil, Y. K. Djamba, S. R. Kimuna, E. Milne, L. Seal, & E. Y. Tenkorang (Eds.), The Emerald International Handbook of Feminist Perspectives on Women's Acts of Violence (19-32). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80382-255-620231002

Men typically commit more violent crime than women which has led to the concept that it is a male offence. Consequently, there is a tendency to suggest that female offenders are so atypical and abnormal that they require explanation, rather than acce... Read More about No explanation needed: Gendered narratives of violent crime.

‘Completely Innocent or Wholly Culpable’ Judicial Outcomes of Women Tried for Homicide in Pre-Modern England (2022)
Book Chapter
Brown, S. (2022). ‘Completely Innocent or Wholly Culpable’ Judicial Outcomes of Women Tried for Homicide in Pre-Modern England. In I. Masson, & N. Booth (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Women’s Experiences of Criminal Justice. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003202295-4

There is much debate among historians on how the pre-modern English legal system treated women accused of homicide. Some argue that women received leniency due to squeamishness concerning execution and the female body, whereas others suggest a patria... Read More about ‘Completely Innocent or Wholly Culpable’ Judicial Outcomes of Women Tried for Homicide in Pre-Modern England.

Identity and the Prosecution of Interpersonal Violence in Late Medieval Yorkshire, 1340-85 (2022)
Thesis
Brown, S. (2022). Identity and the Prosecution of Interpersonal Violence in Late Medieval Yorkshire, 1340-85. (Thesis). University of Cambridge. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4920031

There has been a strong historiographical focus on quantifying medieval crime and profiling criminals. This methodology has often resulted in a failure to consider the intersection between the law and social attitudes. This current investigation is i... Read More about Identity and the Prosecution of Interpersonal Violence in Late Medieval Yorkshire, 1340-85.

The only consolation is that the criminal is not a Welshman: The foreign-born men hanged in Wales, 1840-1900. (2020)
Book Chapter
Brown, S. (2020). The only consolation is that the criminal is not a Welshman: The foreign-born men hanged in Wales, 1840-1900. In P. Low, H. Joan Rutherford, & C. Sandford-Couch (Eds.), Execution Culture in Nineteenth Century Britain: From Public Spectacle to Hidden Ritual. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429318832-12

This chapter focuses on the portrayal in contemporary newspapers of the eight foreign-born men hanged for murder in Wales from 1840 to 1900. In doing so, it fills a major lacuna in the historiography of capital punishment, migration, and otherness in... Read More about The only consolation is that the criminal is not a Welshman: The foreign-born men hanged in Wales, 1840-1900..