Criminal conversations
Subtitle: Victorian crimes, social panic, and moral outrage
By: edited by Judith Rowbotham and Kim Stevenson.
Contributors: Rowbotham, Judith.; Stevenson, Kim.
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780814209738; 9780814290439
Subjects: Crime -- England -- Public opinion -- History -- 19th century; Deviant behavior -- England -- Public opinion -- History -- 19th century; Crime in mass media -- History -- 19th century; Deviant behavior in mass media -- History -- 19th century; Criminal justice, Administration of -- England -- History -- 19th century; England -- Moral conditions -- History -- 19th century; England -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Identifying the causes and impacts of bad behaviour. Beyond the bounds of respectable society: the 'dangerous classes' in Victorian and Edwardian England / David Taylor ; The press and the public visibility of nineteenth-century criminal children / Jane Abbott ; Religion, rural society and moral panic in mid-Victorian England / Gary Moses ; A Victorian financial crisis: the scandalous implications of the case of Overend Gurney / Paul Barnes ; Larceny: debating the 'boundless region of dishonesty / Graham Ferris; title: 'External' threats to the security of society. Criminal savages? Or 'civilizing' the legal process / Judith Rowbotham ; Behaving badly? Irish migrants and 'crime' / Roger Swift ; Striking at Sodom and Gomorrah: the medicalization of male homosexuality and its relation to the law / Ivan Crozier ; A mania for suspicion: poisoning, science and the law / Tony Ward ; A little of what you fancy does you; title: harm!! (with apologies to Marie Lloyd ) / Sandra Morton; title: The threat from within. The eloquent corpse: gender, probity and bodily integrity in Victorian domestic murder / Shani D'Cruze ; She-butchers: baby-droppers, baby-sweaters and baby-farmers / David Bentley ; Sex, wives and prostitutes: debating Clarence / Kate Gleeson ; 'Crimes of moral outrage:' Victorian encryptions of sexual violence / Kim Stevenson ; 'Kicked, beaten, jumped on until they are crushed,' all under man's wing and protection: The Victorian dilemma with domestic violence / Susan Edwards.