Behaving badly
Subtitle: social panic and moral outrage--Victorian and modern parallels
By: edited by Judith Rowbotham and Kim Stevenson.
Contributors: Rowbotham, Judith.; Stevenson, Kim.
Publisher: Ashgate; Ashgate Pub Ltd
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hampshire, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: Crime -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Crime -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Crime -- Great Britain -- Public opinion -- History; Deviant behavior -- Great Britain -- Public opinion -- History; Criminal law -- Great Britain
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-239) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: behaving badly / Judith Rowbotham and Kim Stevenson; title: Acquitting the innocent. Convicting the guilty. Delivering justice? / David Bentley; title: Causing a sensation: media and legal representations of bad behaviour / Judith Rowbotham and Kim Stevenson; title: Policing a myth, managing an illusion: Victorian and contemporary crime recording / Tom Williamson; title: Policing bad behaviour - interrogating the dilemmas / Roger Hopkins Burke; title: Law and disorder: Victorian restraint and modern panic / Kiron Reid; title: Moral cancers: fraud and respectable crime / Sarah Wilson; title: The blast of blasphemy: government, law and culture confront a chill wind / David Nash; title: A dangerous obsession? Gambling and social stability / Mike Ahearne; title: Legislating morality: Victorian and modern legal responses to pornography / Tom Lewis; title: Penny dreadfuls and perverse domains: Victorian and modern moral panics / Gavin Sutter; title: Discourses of denial and moral panics: the pornographisation of the child in art, the written word, film and photograph / Susan Edwards; title: Why can't a woman be more like a man?: Attitudes to husband-murder, 1889-1989 / Judith Knelman; title: Gendered assumptions - madness, pregnancy and childbirth / M.E. Rodgers; title: From unlawful assembly to aggravated trespass: the control of protest in the 1880s and 1990s / Richard Stone.