Female serial killers in the early modern age? Recurrent infanticide in Finland 1750–1896
| Autor: | Mona Rautelin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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History
Serial killer Sociology and Political Science Gratification media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Context (language use) 16. Peace & justice Assizes Birth control 5. Gender equality 050501 criminology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Complicity Social Sciences (miscellaneous) 050104 developmental & child psychology 0505 law media_common Demography |
| Zdroj: | The History of the Family. 18:349-370 |
| ISSN: | 1873-5398 1081-602X |
| DOI: | 10.1080/1081602x.2013.775068 |
| Popis: | This article examines multiple infanticide in early modern Finland in which the same woman killed several newborns after repeated hidden pregnancies and childbirths. A well-documented case in Lohja, Nummi and Pusula Court of Assizes in 1874 is compared with nine other recurrent infanticides in Finland in the period 1750–1896. The context of the series of crimes and the reasons why it took so long to apprehend the murderers differed from the majority of reported infanticides, which were quite unplanned and the perpetrators of which were apprehended within days of the act. These offenders were serial killers who experienced a need to kill even if they were not literally serial killers according to modern conceptions of male-oriented serial killing. They did not deliberately get themselves pregnant with men in order to obtain psychological gratification from killing newborn babies. Rather, they resorted to killing several of their illegitimate babies as a solution of birth control because their first such cr... |
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