HIST 3850 Lecture 5: October 7 Lecture
7 Oct 2016
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Only 13 women among these guilty verdicts (~5%) In 2015 canada, approximately 14% of murder convictions are of women. Belief that karla was less culpable than her husband because she was a respectable- looking woman, and sex affairs would only relate to men. Videos showing karla guilty with her husband, but court cannot take back a plea bargain. Women do not have the same opportunities as men to murder. Women were not typically employed in jobs where they possessed weapons. Women were not typically associated with alcohol- usually counted as an influence. Daughter of financially/socially unstable parents, orphaned at age 10. Spent time in workhouse; object of parish charity. Sent to manitoba, canada in 1892 as assisted immigrant and connected with local canadian family/employer. Teenaged years spent in manitoba in domestic service (maid) By age 19, established in brandon, manitoba as a maid to the lane family.
