Rachel Dixon (2022) Infanticide: Expert Evidence and Testimony in Child Murder Cases, 1688-1955. London: Routledge
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University of Tasmania
Australia
Abstract
Victoria Nagy reviews Infanticide: Expert Evidence and Testimony in Child Murder Cases, 1688-1955 by Rachel Dixon.
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Author Biography
Vicky Nagy is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Tasmania. Prior to joining UTAS she was a Lecturer in Criminology at Deakin University, and has also taught at RMIT University in Melbourne and Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest. Her research interests are predominantly linked to history and crime, specifically women’s offending, changing penal practices, as well as criminology teaching pedagogy, and academic misconduct from a criminological perspective. Vicky’s first book, Nineteenth-Century Female Poisoners Three English Women Who Used Arsenic to Kill, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2015. Her research has appeared in various journals including European Journal of Criminology, Crime, Law and Social Change, Journal of Interdisciplinary History \and Women & Criminal Justice.