All Outputs (3)

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.

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..