HIST 3850 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Moral Panic, Murder, Preliminary Hearing
27 Feb 2013
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Topic: brode, death in the queen city, pp. Topic: women who murder: hilda blake 21 years old and shot her mistress, lizzie borden killed her step mother and father. Some feel that men are more violent than women, some feel that women are just socialized differently. There is a tendency for male chivalry to exist in the law system. We should try and understand why women do not kill. She was sent to the local work house at the age of 10. They sent you to work all day, had harsh rules and a harsh regime. Soul destroying places but at least you would not starve. Not the best environment for children: they were called inmates stigmatization, orphans were young, healthy and could work, organizations came up with all sorts of schemes for orphan children such as sending them to the military. Labor was still in very short supply so they needed to import.
