Men of Blood Violence, Manliness, and Criminal Justice in Victorian England
An examination of the treatment of serious violence by men against women in nineteenth-century England. During Victoria's reign the criminal law came to punish such violence more systematically and heavily, while propagating a new, more pacific ideal of manliness. Yet this apparently progressiv...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK ; Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press
12.01.2004
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| Edition: | 1 |
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| ISBN: | 0521684161, 0521831989, 9780521684163, 9780521831987 |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Problem of Male Violence -- Victorian England and Homicide -- 1 Violence and Law, Gender and Law -- Violence and Law -- Gender, Violence and Law -- 2 When Men Killed Men -- 3 Sexual Violence -- 4 Homicidal Women and Homicidal Men: A Growing Contrast -- 5 Bad Wives: Drunkenness and Other Provocations -- Rights of "Chastisement" -- Wives' Words -- Drunkard Wives -- 6 Bad Wives II: Adultery and the Unwritten Law -- Acquittals -- Manslaughter Verdicts -- Murder Verdict with Reprieve -- Executions -- 7 Establishing Intention: Probing the Mind of a Wife Killer -- Lack of a Lethal Weapon -- Drunkenness -- Drunkenness and Insanity -- Insanity -- Conclusion: The New "Reasonable Man" and Twentieth-Century Britain -- Index