Carolyn Strange is a professor in the School of History at the Australian National University.

"Strange has not only offered a challenging, thoughtful, and often unsettling work, but has done so in a fashion solidifying her place as one of this nation’s very best historians."- Jonathan Swainger, University of Northern British Columbia (Labour/Le Travail)

• Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Politics of the Death Penalty and the Problem of Sex Murder 2. Sex Fiends and the Death Penalty at the Turn of Canada’s Century3. Contesting Convictions and Questioning Culpability: Sex Murder between the Wars4. Sexual Psychopathy and Penal Severity in the Post-War Era 5. Sexual Psychopathy, Insanity, and the Death Penalty under Scrutiny in the 1950s6. Sex Murder in the Sixties and the Demise of the Death PenaltyEpilogue: The Problem of Sex Murder in the Shadow of AbolitionNote on Sources and Methods

Carolyn Strange is a professor in the School of History at the Australian National University.

"Strange has not only offered a challenging, thoughtful, and often unsettling work, but has done so in a fashion solidifying her place as one of this nation’s very best historians."- Jonathan Swainger, University of Northern British Columbia (Labour/Le Travail)

• Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Politics of the Death Penalty and the Problem of Sex Murder 2. Sex Fiends and the Death Penalty at the Turn of Canada’s Century3. Contesting Convictions and Questioning Culpability: Sex Murder between the Wars4. Sexual Psychopathy and Penal Severity in the Post-War Era 5. Sexual Psychopathy, Insanity, and the Death Penalty under Scrutiny in the 1950s6. Sex Murder in the Sixties and the Demise of the Death PenaltyEpilogue: The Problem of Sex Murder in the Shadow of AbolitionNote on Sources and Methods

Carolyn Strange is a professor in the School of History at the Australian National University.

"Strange has not only offered a challenging, thoughtful, and often unsettling work, but has done so in a fashion solidifying her place as one of this nation’s very best historians."- Jonathan Swainger, University of Northern British Columbia (Labour/Le Travail)

• Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Politics of the Death Penalty and the Problem of Sex Murder 2. Sex Fiends and the Death Penalty at the Turn of Canada’s Century3. Contesting Convictions and Questioning Culpability: Sex Murder between the Wars4. Sexual Psychopathy and Penal Severity in the Post-War Era 5. Sexual Psychopathy, Insanity, and the Death Penalty under Scrutiny in the 1950s6. Sex Murder in the Sixties and the Demise of the Death PenaltyEpilogue: The Problem of Sex Murder in the Shadow of AbolitionNote on Sources and Methods