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The debate on the gendered nature of crime and its punishment is well established in feminist literature, and centers on gender differences in criminal behavior and in legal outcomes.1 There is also a parallel debate on gender and mental health, focusing on gender differences in the experiences and manifestations of mental disorder and on differences in society’s response to these experiences.2 These two debates intersect when persons who have a mental disorder have committed a crime. Today, such persons are known as mentally disordered offenders, but in the nineteenth century they were classified as “criminal lunatics.” |
