Genre:

Abstract

Publications abstracted:

Arthur G F Griffiths Windsor Magazine

Subjects:

Crime, Gender, Heredity, Pathology

    Claims that women prisoners demonstrate all the same 'womanly trait[s]' exhibited by women outside of gaol, and suggests that the female prisoner's maternal instincts and 'love of personal decoration' give no cause whatever for 'belief in Professor Lombroso's theory of a special criminal type'.