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1. Introduction -- 2. The Nature and Effects Of Adversarialism: Jury Decision Making In Sexual Assault Trials -- 3. Factors That Predict Outcomes in Sexual Assault Trials -- 4. 'Commonsense' Or 'Life Experience': Jurors' Perceptions Of Guilt -- 5. 'No Means Yes And Yes Means Anal': The Cultural Climate In Which Sex Offences Are Prosecuted -- 6. The Nature And Effects Of Adversarialism . Sites Of Activation For Heuristic Reasoning Processes -- 7. Modernisation Of The Substantive Law Of Consent -- 8. Cross Examination In Sexual Assault Trials: Evidentiary Safeguard Or An Opportunity To Confuse? -- 9. Contemporary Reforms To Cross-Examination -- 10 . The Problems Facing Reformers Of The Sexual Assault Trial -- 11. Achieving Best Evidence For Vulnerable Witnesses: The Use Of Trauma-Informed Theory To Reform The Sexual Assault Trial -- 12. Reform Measures: The Devil Is In The Detail.

This book considers one of the main crimes with which women are associated, infanticide and child murder. Beginning its journey in the nineteenth century, the book interrogates the history of a little-known, widespread social crime to inform the present, interrogating the historical laws governing illegitimacy and infanticide as a form of moral regulation and the role of the sexed female body in justifying those laws. Female Criminality analyses the relationships between men and women, the working and middle classes, the medical establishment, media, and judges, juries and convicts, to extend the social utility of the moral panic concept by providing a causal foundation for the occurrence of moral panics. Crucially, it identifies that the 'folk devil', the subject of Britain's first moral panic concerning children, was a sexed body whose qualities were so monstrous and hellish that the image of the heartless, evil woman who can turn her hand to murder was cemented into public consciousness. So much so, the 'folk devil' became the favourite subject of psychiatry and other medical disciplines and was used by prosecutors to influence the (wrongful) convictions of mothers accused of multiple infant-murder. Exploring how cultural values attributed to the female body are still associated with mothers who commit infanticide and multiple infant deaths in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, this book will appeal to scholars of Criminology, Law, History and Gender Studies.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Chapter One Introduction: The Male Problem of Child Sex Offending -- A. The Research Issues -- B. Some Caveats -- C. An Historical Framework in which to Examine the Motivations of Male Child Sex Offenders -- (i) Child Prostitution and the Sexual Slave Trade -- (ii) The Social Purity Movement in England and Australia -- (iii) Protecting Men from False Accusations -- (iv) The Criminalisation of Incest in Australia -- (v) The Criminalisation of Incest in England -- (vi) Conclusion -- D. Definitions and Terminology Used in this Book -- Chapter Two Current Explanations of Child Sexual Abuse -- Child Sex Offending: Violence, Sex, Power, Dysfunctional Families or Just Plain Deviance? -- (i) Introduction -- (ii) An Analysis of Child Sexual Abuse as a Function of Family Pathology -- (iii) Sexually Coercive Behaviour: A Case of Biological Propensity or Culturally Influenced Behaviour? -- (iv) The Relationship between Power and Child Sexual Abuse -- (v) Child Sexual Abuse as a Sociological Phenomenon -- (vi) Psychological Theories of Child Sex Offenders and 'Good' and 'Bad' Masculine Sexuality -- (vii) The Characteristics of Child Sex Offenders -- (viii) The Multi-Factorial Analysis of Child Sexual Abuse -- (ix) Conclusion -- Chapter Three Masculinities and Sexualities: A Sociological Theory of Child Sexual Abuse -- A. Introduction -- B. The Role of Power and Sexuality in the Making (and Unmaking) of Men -- (i) Gender as Social Practice -- (ii) Social Practices of Masculinity and Structures of Power -- (iii) The Centrality of Heterosexism to Masculine Sexual Ideals -- (iv) Masculine Sexual Practices -- (v) 'Pedosexuality' as a Specific Masculine Sexual Practice -- (vi) Blurring the Distinction between Pathology and Normality.