 |  | | | Is there such a thing as a feminine crime? | 02 May 2006 | | |
Alethea Foster is currently on trial for attempted murder after the multiple stabbing of her husband's mistress. Margaret James has been charged with the murder of her partner Peter Solheim whose body was found at sea, the prosecuting counsel in her trial is reported as calling the crime 'a very female personal attack'.
Leaving the details of these particular cases aside, is there any such thing as a feminine crime? Historically speaking are the things that lead women to commit crime any different from those that lead men?
To discuss the notion of female crime, Jenni is joined by Gill Mezey, Consultant and Reader in Forensic Psychiatry at St George's, University of London and Susan Batchelor, Department of Sociology, Glasgow University. | |
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