She chose the latter. The killing of children by their mothers had long been regarded as a heinous crime. However, in early 19th-century England, the increased emphasis on domesticity and feminine ...

In the 19th century, the desire for criminals to suffer began to be replaced with the belief that punishment should help criminals to move away from a life of crime. However, the idea of using ...

Death masks of criminals were made across the Western world during the early 19th Century. The aim was to attempt to make connections between the physical features of the head and the nature of ...