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Abrams, Lynn "The Taming of Highland Masculinity:Inter-personal Violence and Shifting Codes of Manhood, c.1760-1840" , in Scottish Historical Review, vol.92.1 (2013) More details ...
Abrams, Lynn "The Tragic Case of Gina Skaar" , in The New Shetlander (2003) More details ...
Adler, Ruth M., in Taking juvenile justice seriously. (Edinburgh, Scottish Academic Press, 1985) More details ...
Allinson, Rayne "The queen's three bodies: gender, criminality and sovereignty in the execution of Mary Queen of Scots" , in Cassidy-Welch, Megan and Sherlock, P edd. Practices of Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Brepols, Turnhout, 2008) More details ...
Anderson, W., in Low Life in Victorian Edinburgh: An inquiry into destitution, prostitution and crime in Edinburgh. (P. Harris, Edinburgh, 1980) More details ...
Ashford, Z. "The Clandestine marriage of John Bonar (1696-1752) and Jean Smith (1695-1737)" , in Scottish Genealogist , vol.39 (1992) More details ...
Balfour, James, in , Charles K. Sharpe.A Memorial of the Conversion of Jean Livingstone, Lady Wariston, with an Account of her Carriage at her Execution, July 1600. (privately published, Edinburgh, 1827) More details ...
Batho, G.R. "The execution of Mary Queen of Scots" , in Scottish Historical Review, vol.34 (1960) More details ...
Bingham, Caroline, in Darnley: a life of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, consort of Mary, Queen of Scots. (Constable, London, 1995) More details ...
Blaikie, Andrew "'The Map of Vice in Scotland': Victorian Vocabularies of Causation" , in Forrai., J. ed. Civilization, Sexuality and Social Life in Historical Context: The Hidden Face of Urban Life. (SOTE University Press/Uj-Aranyhid Kft, Budapest, 1996) More details ...
Blyth, Henry, in Madeleine Smith. (Duckworth Ltd, London, 1975) More details ...
Brealey, Gena Kay, Hunter, in The Two Worlds of Helen Duncan. (Regency, London, 1985) More details ...
Brown, Yvonne GallowayRona, Ferguson, in Brown , Yvonne Galloway and Ferguson. , Rona edd. Twisted Sisters: Women, Crime and Deviance in Scotland Since 1400. (Tuckwell Press, East Linton, 2002) More details ...
Brown, Yvonne GallowayRona, Ferguson "Introduction. Twisted Sisters: Women, Crime and Deviance in Scotland Since 1400" , in Galloway, Yvonne Brown and Ferguson., Rona edd. Twisted Sisters: Women, Crime and Deviance in Scotland Since 1400. (Tuckwell Press, East Linton, 2002) More details ...
Bryce, J.D., in The Glasgow Magdalene Asylum, its past and present: With Relative Facts and Suggestions (David Bryce, Glasgow, 1859) More details ...
Buchanan, George, in A detection of the actions of Mary Queen of Scots concerning the murther of her husband, and her conspiracy, adultery, and pretended marriage with the earl Bothwell and a defence of the true Lords, maintainers of the King's majesties action and authority. (Printed, and to be sold by Richard Janeway, London, 1689) More details ...
Cassirer, Manfred, in Medium on Trial (PN Publishing, Stanstead, Essex, 1996) More details ...
Cowan, Edward J. "Sex and violence in the Scottish ballads'" , in Cowan, Edward ed. The Ballad in Scottish History. (Tuckwell Press, East Linton, 2000) More details ...
Cowan, Edward J.Lizanne, Henderson "The Last of the Witches? The Survival of Scottish Witch Belief" , in Goodare, J. ed. The Scottish Witch-hunt in Context. (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2002) More details ...
Cowan, Edward J. "The darker vision of the Scottish Renaissance: the Devil and Francis Stewart" , in Cowan, Ian B. and Shaw., Duncan edd. The Renaissance and Reformation in Scotland. (Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh, 1983) More details ...
Davies, Andrew "Street gangs, crime and policing in Glasgow during the 1930a:: the case of the Beehive Boys" , in Social Hisrory, vol.23 (1998) More details ...
Davies, Andrew, in City of Gangs: Glasgow and the Rise of the British Gangster (Hodder & Stoughton, 2013) More details ...
Davies, Stephen J. "Law and Order in Stirlingshire, 1637-1747" (PhD thesis, University of St Andrews, 1983) More details ...
DesBrisay, Gordon "Twisted by Definition: Women Under Godly Discipline in Seventeenth-Century Scottish Towns" , in Brown, Yvonne Galloway and Ferguson. , Rona edd. Twisted Sisters: Women, Crime and Deviance in Scotland Since 1400. (Tuckwell Press, East Linton, 2002) More details ...
DesBrisay, Gordon "Menacing their Persons and Exacting on their Purses" , in Stevenson., David ed. From Lairds to Louns: Country and Burgh Life in Aberdeen, 1600-1800. (Aberdeen University Press, Aberdeen, 1986) More details ...
Dobash, Rebecca EmmersonRussell, Dobash, in Violence against Wives: A Case Against the Patriarchy (Free Press, New York, 1979) More details ...
Dobash, Russell P.Pat, McLaughlin "The Punishment of Women in Nineteenth-century Scotland: Prisons and Inebriate Institutions" , in Esther, Breitenbach and Eleanor, Gordon edd. Out of Bounds: women in Scottish society 1800-1945 (Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 1992) More details ...
Donnachie, Ian "Utterly irreclaimable: Scottish convict women and Australia 1787-1852" , in Philip, Swan and David, Foster edd. Essays in Regional and Local History: in honour of Eric M. Sigsworth (Hutton Press, Beverley, 1992) More details ...
Dunning, Tom "Narrow Nowhere Universes, Child Rape and Convict Transportation in Scotland and Van Diemen's Land, 1839-1853" , in Scottish Historical Review, vol.85:1 More details ...
Dye, Sierra "To Converse with the Devil? Speech, Sexuality, and Witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland" , in International Review of Scottish Studies, vol.37 (2012) More details ...
Eagleton, Terry, in The Rape of Clarissa: Writing, Sexuality and Class Struggle in Samuel Richardson. (Oxford, 1982) More details ...
Ewan, Elizabeth "'Tongue You Lied:' The Role of the Tongue in Rituals of Public Penance in Late Medieval Scotland" , in Craun., Edwin J. ed. The Hands of the Tongue: essays on deviant speech (Medieval Institute Publications, Kalamazoo, 2007) More details ...
Ewan, Elizabeth "Crime or Culture? Women and Daily Life in Late-Medieval Scotland" , in Brown, Yvonne Galloway and Ferguson, Rona edd. Twisted Sisters: Women, Crime and Deviance Since 1400. (Tuckwell Press, East Linton, 2002) More details ...
Ewan, Elizabeth "'Many Injurious Words': Defamation and Gender in Late Medieval Scotland" , in McDonald, R. Andrew ed. History, Literature, and Music in Scotland, 700-1560. (University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2002) More details ...
Ewan, Elizabeth "Mons Meg and Merchant Meg: Women in Later Medieval Edinburgh" , in Brotherstone, Terry and Ditchburn , David edd. Freedom and Authority: Scotland c.1050-c.1650. (Tuckwell Press, East Linton, 2000) More details ...
Ewan, Elizabeth "Disorderly Damsels? Women and Interpersonal Violence in Pre-Reformation Scotland" , in Scottish Historical Review, vol.89:2 (2010) More details ...
Falconer, J.R.D. "'Mony utheris divars odious crymes': Women, Petty Crime and Power in Later Sixteenth Century Aberdeen" , in Crimes and Misdemeanours; Deviance and the Law in Historical Perspective, vol.4:1 (2010) More details ...
Falconer, J.R.D., in Crime and Community in Reformation Scotland: Negotiating Power in a Burgh Society (Pickering & Chatto, London, 2013) More details ...
Fraser, Patrick, in Treatise on the law of Scotland as applicable to the personal and domestic relations (Edinburgh, 1846) More details ...
Frost, Lucy, in Abandoned Women: Scottish Convicts Exiled Beyond the Seas (Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2012) More details ...
Frost, Lucy "'Fully Ripe for Transportation': The Scottish Convict Women sent to Van Diemen's Land" , in History Scotland, vol.9:4 (July/August) (2009) More details ...
Gaskill, Malcolm, in Hellis Nell: Last of Britain's Witches (Fourth Estate, London, 2002) More details ...
Goodare, Julian "Witch-hunting and the Scottish state" , in Goodare., Julian ed. The Scottish witch-hunt in context. (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2002) More details ...
Goodare, Julian "The framework for Scottish witch-hunting in the 1590s" , in Scottish Historical Review, vol.81 (2002) More details ...
Goodare, Julian "The Scottish witchcraft act" , in Church History, vol.74 (2005) More details ...
Goodare, Julian "Women and the witch-hunt in Scotland" , in Social History, vol.23 (1998) More details ...
Gordon, EleanorGwyneth, Nair, in Murder and Morality in Victorian Britain. The Story of Madeleine Smith (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2009) More details ...
Harrison, John G. "Women and the branks in Stirling, c.1600 to c.1730" , in Scottish Economic and Social History , vol.18:2 (1998) More details ...
Hartman, M.S. "Murder for Respectability: The case of Madeline Smith" , in Victorian Studies , vol.16 (1975) More details ...
Henderson, LizanneEdward J., Cowan, in Scottish Fairy Belief: A History. (Tuckwell Press, East Linton, 2001) More details ...
Henderson, Lizanne "'Detestable Slaves of the Devil': Changing Ideas about Witchcraft in Sixteenth-Century Scotland" , in Cowan, E.J. and Henderson, Lizanne edd. A History of Everyday Life in Medieval Scotland 1000-1600 (Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2011) More details ...
Hewitt, Regina "Treason, Sedition and Reform: The Scottish Trials and Joanna Baillie's Ethwald" , in Scottish Literary Review, vol.2:1 (2009) More details ...
Hughes, A.M., in Popular Pastimes and Wife Assault in Interwar Glasgow (Honours Dissertation, University of Strathclyde, 1996) More details ...
Hughes, Annmarie "Working Class Culture. Family Life and Domestic Violence on Clydeside, c.1918-1939: a View from Below" , in Scottish Tradition, vol.27 (2002) More details ...
Humphries, W.R. "The execution of Mary, queen of Scots" , in Aberdeen University Review , vol.30 (1943) More details ...
Hutchison, James "A sermon on witchcraft in 1697" , in Neilson. , G. ed. Scottish Historical Review, vol.7 (1910) More details ...
Hutton, Ronald "The global context of the Scottish witch-hunt" , in Goodare., Julian ed. The Scottish witch-hunt in context. (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2002) More details ...
Inspectorate of Prisons , and Social Work Services, in Women offenders: a safer way: a review of community disposals and the use of custody for women offenders in Scotland (Scottish Office, Edinburgh, 1998) More details ...
Jepsen, Theresa Irina Svane "Wicked women of eighteenth-century Aberdeen" , in Women's History Magazine, vol.66 (2011) More details ...
Kelly , Christine "The Criminalisation of Children in Scotland, 1840-1910" (PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2012) More details ...
Kilday, Anne-Marie, in A History of Infanticide in Britain c. 1600 to the Present (Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, 2013) More details ...
Kilday, Anne-Marie "Women and Crime in Britain, 1700-1850" , in Chalus, Elaine ed. Women's History: Britain, 1700-1850 (Routledge, London, 2005) More details ...
Knox, Andrea "Female Criminality and Subversion in Early Modern Ireland" , in Knafla., Louis A. ed. Crime, Gender, and Sexuality in Criminal Prosecutions., Criminal Justice History vol 17 (Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 2002) More details ...
Knox, Andrea "'Barbarous and Pestiferous Women': Female Criminality, Violence and Aggression in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Scotland and Ireland" , in Brown, Yvonne Galloway and Ferguson., Rona edd. Twisted Sisters: Women, Crime and Deviance in Scotland Since 1400. (Tuckwell Press, East Linton, 2002) More details ...
Larner, C.J., in Continental Influences on Scottish Demonology 1560-1700 (PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1962) More details ...
Larner, Christina, in Enemies of God: the Witch-hunt in Scotland. (Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1981) More details ...
Larner, Christina et al. eds., in A Sourcebook of Scottish Witchcraft. (Glasgow, 1977) More details ...
Leneman, LeahRosalind, Mitchison "Girls in Trouble: The Social and Geographical Setting of Ilegitimacy in Early Modern Scotland" , in Journal of Social History, vol.21:3, Spring (1988) More details ...
Leneman, LeahRosalind, Mitchison, in Sin in the City - Sexuality and Social Control in Urban Scotland 1660-1780. (Edinburgh, 1998) More details ...
Leneman, LeahRosalind, Mitchison "Clandestine Marriage in the Scottish Cities 1660-1780" , in Journal of Social History, vol.26:4 (1993) More details ...
Leslie, R.D. "The applicability of domestic law in cases with a foreign element" , in D.C., Miller ed. Comparative and Historical Essays in Scots Law (Butterworth, London, 1992) More details ...
Levack, Brian "The Prosecution of Sexual Crimes in Early Eighteenth-Century Scotland" , in Scottish Historical Review, vol.89:2 (2010) More details ...
Levack, Brian, in Witch-hunting in Scotland. Law, Politics and Religion. (Routledge, New York, 2008) More details ...
Levack, Brian P. "The great Scottish witch-hunt of 1661-1662" , in Journal of British Studies, vol.20 (1980) More details ...
Levack, Brian P. "The decline and end of Scottish witch-hunting" , in Goodare., Julian ed. The Scottish witch-hunt in context. (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2002) More details ...
Levack, Brian P. ed., in Witchcraft in Scotland. (Garland, London, 1992) More details ...
MacCulloch, J.A. "The mingling of fairy and witch beliefs in sixteenth and seventeenth century Scotland" , in Folklore, vol.32 (1921) More details ...
MacDonald, S.W. "The Devil's Mark and the Witch-prickers of Scotland" , in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, vol.90 (1997) More details ...
Macdonald, Stuart "Torture and the Scottish Witch-hunt: a Re-examination" , in Scottish Tradition, vol.27 (2002) More details ...
Macdonald, Stuart "In search of the Devil in Fife witchcraft cases, 1560-1705" , in Goodare., Julian ed. The Scottish witch-hunt in context. (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2002) More details ...
Macdonald, Stuart, in The Witches of Fife: Witch-hunting in a Scottish Shire, 1560-1710. (Tuckwell Press, East Linton, 2002) More details ...
Mahood, Linda "The disbudding of flowers: the historical construction of female adolescent delinquency" , in Terry, Brotherstone ed. Gendering Scottish History (Cruithe Press, Glasgow, 1999) More details ...
Marshall, Rosalind K., in Virgins and Viragos: a history of women in Scotland from 1080-1980. (Collins, London, 1983) More details ...
Martin, Lauren "The Devil and the domestic: witchcraft, quarrels and women's work in Scotland" , in Goodare., Julian ed. The Scottish Witch-hunt in Context. (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2002) More details ...
Martin, Lauren "Witchcraft and the Family: what can witchcraft documents tell us about early modern Scottish family life?" , in Scottish Tradition, vol.27 (2002) More details ...
Maxwell, Alexander , in Old Dundee: Ecclesiastical, Burghal, and Social, Prior to the Reformation. (David Douglas, Edinburgh, 1891) More details ...
Maxwell-Stuart, Peter G., in Satan's Conspiracy. Magic and Witchcraft in Sixteenth-Century Scotland. (Tuckwell Press, East Linton, 2001) More details ...
Maxwell-Stuart, Peter G. "The fear of the king is death: James VI and the witches of East Lothian" , in Naphy, W. G. and Roberts., P. edd. Fear in Early Modern Society. (Manchester, 1997) More details ...
McCallum, John, in Reforming the Scottish Parish: The Reformation in Fife, 1560-1640 (Ashgate, Aldershot, 2010) More details ...
McGinley, Kevin J. "'The 'Fenzeit' and the Feminine: Robert Henryson's Orpheus and Eurydice and the Gendering of Poetry" , in Dunnigan, C.Marie Harker, Sarah M. and Newlyn., Evelyn S. edd. Woman and the Feminine in Medieval and Early Modern Scottish Writing. (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2004) More details ...
McLachlan, HughKim, Swales "The Bewitchment of Christian Shaw: A Reassessment of the Famous Paisley Witchcraft Case of 1697" , in Brown, Yvonne Galloway and Ferguson., Rona edd. Twisted Sisters: Women, Crime and Deviance in Scotland Since 1400. (Tuckwell Press, East Linton, 2002) More details ...
Miller, Joyce, in Cantrips and Carlins: Magic, Medicine and Society in the Presbyteries of Haddington and Stirling, 1603-88 (PhD thesis, University of Stirling, 1999) More details ...
Mitchison, RosalindLeah, Leneman, in Girls in Trouble - Sexuality and Social Control in Rural Scotland 1660-1780. (Edinburgh, 1998) More details ...
Mitchison, RosalindLeah, Leneman, in Sexuality and Social Control: Scotland, 1660-1780. (Blackwell Press, Oxford, 1989) More details ...
Murdoch, Steve, in Network North. Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe 1603-1746 (Brill, Leiden, 2005) More details ...
Nash, DavidAnne-Marie, Kilday, in Cultures of Shame. Exploring Crime and Mortality in Britain, 1600-1900 (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2010) More details ...
Nau, Claude, in Stevenson., Joseph ed. The History of Mary Stewart from the Murder of Riccio Until Her Flight into England (William Paterson, Edinburgh, 1883) More details ...
Neville, Cynthia "War, Women and Crime in the Northern English Border Lands in the Later Middle Ages" , in Kagay, Donald J. and Villalon., l.J. Andrew edd. The Final Argument: The Impact of Violence on Society in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. (The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 1998) More details ...
Ni Dhonnchadha, Mairin "The Lex Innocentium: Adomnan's Law for Women, Celrics and Youths, 697 A.D." , in O'Dowd, Mary and Wichert., Sabine edd. Chattel, Servant or Citizen: Women's Status in Church, State and Society. (The Institute of Irish STudies, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, 1995) More details ...
Normand, LawrenceGareth, Roberts eds, in Witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland. James VI's Demonology and the North Berwick Witches (Exeter University Press, Exeter, 2000) More details ...
Parks, Annette "Isabel, Countess of Buchan" , in Amazons to Fighter Pilots. A Biographical Dictionary of Military Women. (Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, 2003) More details ...
Patterson, W.P.D., Watson eds, in Social Evils and Problems (Church of Scotland, 1918) More details ...
Perry, Ruth "Brother Trouble: Murder and Incest in Scottish Ballads" , in Johnson, Christopher H. and Sabean, David Warren edd. Sibling Relations & the Transformations of European Kinship 1300-1900 (Berghahn Books, New York, 2011) More details ...
Pollen, J.H., in Mary, Queen of Scots and the Babington Plot. (Scottish Historical Society, 1922) More details ...
Prentice, Malcolm D. "What do we Know about Scottish Convicts" , in Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, vol.90:1 (2004) More details ...
Purkiss, Diane "Sounds of silence: fairies and incest in Scottish witchcraft stories" , in Clark. , S. ed. Languages of Witchcraft: Narrative, Ideology and Meaning in Early Modern Culture (London, 2001) More details ...
Rowland, Ann Wierda "'The fause nourice sang': childhood, child murder, and the formation of the Scottish ballad revival" , in Davis, Leith ed. Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism More details ...
Roy, Kenneth "Crime and Punishment II: the Lost girls" , in Scottish Review , vol.7 (1996) More details ...
Scottish Executive Ministerial Group on Women's Offending, , in A Better Way: the report of the Ministerial Group on Women's Offending (Scottish Executive, Edinburgh, 2002) More details ...
Sellar, W.D.H., in Osborough. , W.N. ed. Explorations in Law and History. (Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1995) More details ...
Sharpe, James "Witch-hunting and witch historiography: some Anglo-Scottish comparisons" , in Goodare., Julian ed. The Scottish witch-hunt in context. (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2002) More details ...
Simpson, Jacqueline, in Folklore, vol.106 (1995) More details ...
Singh, Frances "Digging for Jane and Finding Yorrick" , in Nineteenth-Century Contexts, vol.33:1 (2011) More details ...
Smith, Lesley M. "Sackcloth for the sinner or punishment for the crime? Church and secular courts in Cromwellian Scotland" , in Roger A.Mason. , John Dwyer and and Alexander, Murdoch, edd. New Perspectives on the Politics and Culture of Early Modern Scotland (Edinburgh, 1982) More details ...
Smith, Madeleine Hamilton, in F. Tennyson, Jesse, ed. Trial of Miss Madeleine H. Smith: before the High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh June 30th to July 9th 1857, for the alleged poisoning of M. Pierre Emile L'Angelier, at Glasgow (D. Mathers, Edinburgh, 1949) More details ...
Stafford, Helen "Notes on Scottish witchcraft cases, 1590-1591" , in Downes. , N. ed. Essays in Honour of Conyers Read. (London?, 1953) More details ...
Stevenson, David "Major Weir: a justified sinner?" , in Scottish Studies, vol.16 (1972) More details ...
Symonds, Deborah, in Weep Not for Me: Women, Ballads and Infanticide in Early Modern Scotland. (Pennsylyvania State University Press, University Park, 1997) More details ...
Symonds, Deborah, in Notorious Murders, Black Lanterns and Moveable Goods: The Transformation of Edinburgh's Underworld in the Early Nineteenth Century (University of Akron Press, Akron, 2006) More details ...
Symonds, Deborah "The Road to Ruindunan" , in The Journal of the Historical Society, vol.2:3-4, Summer/Fall (2002) More details ...
Tayler, Henrietta, in Lady Nithsdale and Her Family (Lindsay Drummond, London, 1939) More details ...
Thomson, George M., in The Crime of Mary Stuart. (London, 1967) More details ...
Turner, Sir George, in Mary Stuart, Forgotten Forgeries. (London, 1933) More details ...
Walker, W.M. "Infant Suffocation Historical Myth" , in SESH 8 (1988) More details ...
Wasser, Michael "The western witch-hunt of 1697-1700: the last major witch-hunt in Scotland" , in Goodare., Julian ed. The Scottish witch-hunt in context. (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2002) More details ...
Weir, Alison, in Mary Queen of Scots, and the Murder of Lord Darnley. (Random House, New York, 2004) More details ...
Wilby, Emma, in The Visions of Isobel Gowdie. Magic, Witchcraft and Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland (Sussex Academic Press, Brighton, 2010) More details ...
Wormald, J. "The Witches, the Devil and the king" , in Brotherstone, T. and Ditchburn., D. edd. Freedom and Authority: Scotland c.1050-c.1650. (Tuckwell Press, East Linton, 2000) More details ...
Yeoman, Louise A. ed "Witchcraft commissions from the register of commissions of the privy council of Scotland, 1630-1642" , in Scottish History Society Miscellany, vol.13 (2004) More details ...
Young, John R. "The Scottish parliament and witch-hunting in Scotland under the covenanters" , in Parliaments, Estates and Representation, vol.26 (2006) More details ...