Men of blood : violence, manliness and criminal justice in Victorian England /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wiener, Martin J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Temas:
1800-1899
Homicide > England > History > 19th century.
Violence in men > England > History > 19th century.
Women > Violence against > England > History > 19th century.
Wife abuse > England > History > 19th century.
Sexism > England > History > 19th century.
Criminal justice, Administration of > England > History > 19th century.
Homicide > Angleterre > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Violence chez l'homme > Angleterre > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Femmes > Violence envers > Angleterre > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Sexisme > Angleterre > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Justice pénale > Administration > Angleterre > Histoire > 19e siècle.
TRUE CRIME > Murder > General.
Criminal justice, Administration of
Homicide
Sexism
Violence in men
Wife abuse
Women > Violence against
Moorden.
Verkrachting.
Mannen.
Strafrechtspraak.
England
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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