For this reason she was sentenced to an asylum rather than a prison. Her plea was based on the fact that she was a mother. Samantha Pegg's journal, "'Madness Is a Woman': Constance Kent and Victorian Constructions of Female Insanity" examines female madness in depth. More specifically, however, we examine the correlation between femininity, murder and madness from the past to the present. Pegg goes on to say that some people avoid the plea of ​​insanity at all costs, but it is clear that insanity was the motive for committing such heinous crimes. In some cases (such as the Constance Kent case of Victorian female insanity) there is insufficient evidence to prove insanity resulting in imprisonment or a death sentence for the accused. During the Victorian period, crime was understood socially as the inability to fight temptation. Women were seen as abnormal due to feminine weaknesses, such as menstruation and pregnancy, to the more indefinable "weaknesses" of female temperament. Pegg demonstrates that people (women in particular), should be properly evaluated before being sentenced to prison for committing a crime on the grounds of true insanity. Treatment should be given to people to help them control their emotions and behavior. “The widespread perception of the 'dangerous classes' was that of those who easily succumbed to temptations because of their