Men of blood:violence, manliness and criminal justice in Victorian England
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Published: |
Cambridge University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Cambridge, UK |
Publication Dates: | 2004. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | xvi, 296 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
ISBN: |
0521831989 9780521831987 |
Index Number: | D956 |
CLC: |
D956.19 D956.14-09 |
Call Number: | D956.14-09/W647 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Violence and law, gender and law. -- When men killed men. -- Sexual violence. -- Homicidal women and homicidal men: a growing contrast. -- Bad wives: drunkenness and other provocations. -- Bad wives II: adultery and the unwritten law. -- Establishing intention: probing the mind of a wife killer. -- Conclusion: The new "reasonable man" and twentieth-century Britain. |