Monsters of the Vilest Kind - Elizabeth Ewan

Listen in to Elizabeth Ewan, Department of History, participate in a discussion on the history of murder in Scotland. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01r5r1h

Women have killed throughout history but whether they killed men or women, new born babies or infants, revulsion for their crime was aggravated because of the very fact that they were women. Anne-Marie Kilday of Oxford Brookes University asserts that in Scottish society "Women were more morally responsible than men but less criminally culpable!"