The Monstering of Myra Hindley.

Cover -- Copyright and Publication Details -- Table of Contents -- About the author -- Acknowledgements -- Dedication -- Foreword -- The authors of the Foreword -- Introduction -- My personal connection with Myra -- Structure of the book -- Some words of encouragement -- Timeline -- Cookham Wood -- Suspect by association -- A defective law -- The English trial -- The Moors Murders -- Meeting Myra -- Vulnerable women -- The Outsider -- Casual interaction -- Two cases to compare -- Some other European comparisons -- The Nature of Myra's Injustice -- Misogyny, blackmail and abuse -- Public and Political Involvement -- Justice versus politics -- The distinction between Brady and Hindley -- A fruitless recommendation for parole -- An increasingly Kafkaesque situation -- Moving the goalposts -- Reputation, Retreat and Remorse -- Retreat from prison life -- Owning-up and showing remorse -- Meeting another woman serial killer -- Free-spirited Myra compared -- The Media and the Press -- Code of Practice -- Myra as an engineered national obsession -- Pavlov's dog -- A doomed attempt to retrieve matters -- More ostracising, and strange imaginings -- Myra As Public Property -- Bees around the honey pot -- Bruised egos -- But there were also champions … -- Constant Threat and Observation -- Moving up north -- Hypnosis and Other Distractions -- The "Myra industry" -- A problem with victim involvement: A personal view -- Justice versus revenge -- An extended example of Myra's writing -- I'd Like to Help You, But … -- The Prisoner -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- Cries For Help: Women Without a Voice, Women's Prisons in the 1970s, Myra Hindley and her Contemporaries -- Holloway Prison: An Inside Story.

Fifty years after the Moors Murders and 15 years since Myra Hindley died in prison, after one of the longest sentences served by a woman, this book raises some delicate and searching questions. They include: "Why was Hindley treated differently?", "Why do we need to create demons?" and "What impact does this have on our whole notion of crime, punishment and justice?".

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.