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Author: John Carter Wood
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780415329057
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCombining a vivid analysis of criminal records and public debate with theories from cultural studies, anthropology and social geography, this book contributes to current debates in history, criminology and violence studies.
Author: William Hoyle
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Published: 1876
Total Pages: 148
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Judith Rowbotham
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0814209734
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The essays in this book set out to explore the ways in which Victorians used newspapers to identify the causes of bad behavior and its impacts, and the ways in which they tried to "distance" criminals and those guilty of "bad" behavior from the ordinary members of society, including identification of them as different according to race of sexual orientation. It also explores how threats from within "normal" society were depicted and the panic that issues like "baby-farming" caused." "Victorian alarm was about crimes and bad behavior which they saw as new or unique to their period - but which were not new then and which, in slightly different dress, are still causing panic today. What is striking about the essays in this collection are the ways in which they echo contemporary concerns about crime and bad behavior, including panics about "new" types of crime. This has implications for modern understandings of how society needs to understand crime, demonstrating that while there are changes over time, there are also important continuities."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author: Martin J. Wiener
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-01-12
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 0521831989
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Author: Kyle Hughes (Lecturer in British history)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 1786940655
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of essays, based on original research delivered at one of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland's recent annual conferences.--Back book cover.
Author: Clive Emsley
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-13
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 1317864492
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAcknowledged as one of the best introductions to the history of crime in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries,Crime and Society in England 1750-1900 examines thedevelopments in policing, the courts, and the penal system as England became increasingly industrialised and urbanised. The book challenges the old but still influential idea that crime can be attributed to the behaviour of a criminal class and that changes in the criminal justice system were principally the work of far-sighted, humanitarian reformers. In this fourth edition of his now classic account, Professor Emsley draws on new research that has shifted the focus from class to gender, from property crime to violent crime and towards media constructions of offenders, while still maintaining a balance with influential early work in the area. Wide-ranging and accessible, the new edition examines: the value of criminal statistics the effect that contemporary ideas about class and gender had on perceptions of criminality changes in the patterns of crime developments in policing and the spread of summary punishment the increasing formality of the courts the growth of the prison as the principal form of punishment and debates about the decline in corporal and capital punishments Thoroughly updated throughout, the fourth edition also includes, for the first time, illuminating contemporary illustrations.
Author: David Jones
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-08-20
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 1317369963
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study, first published in 1982, is concerned with the nature of crime in nineteenth-century Britain, and explores the response of the community and the police authorities. Each chapter is linked by common themes and questions, and the topics described in detail range from popular forms of rural crime and protest, through crime in industrial and urban communities, to a study of the vagrant. The author pays special attention to the relationship between illegal activities and protest, and emphasizes the context and complexity of official crime rates and of many forms of criminal behaviour. This title will be of interest to students of history and criminology.
Author: Clive Emsley
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2007-01-20
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781852855024
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHard Men is the leading authority on Britain's historic culture of violence. It is dispassionate in tone, and includes discussion of domestic violence against women and political protest.
Author: Victor Bailey
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-08-20
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1317374894
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the years between 1750 and 1868, English criminal justice underwent significant changes. The two most crucial developments were the gradual establishment of an organised, regular police, and the emergence of new secondary punishments, following the restriction in the scope of the death penalty. In place of an ill-paid parish constabulary, functioning largely through a system of rewards and common informers, professional police institutions were given the task of executing a speedy and systematic enforcement of the criminal law. In lieu of the severe and capriciously-administered capital laws, a penalty structure based on a proportionality between the gravity of crimes and the severity of punishments was erected as arguably a more effective deterrent of crime. This book, first published in 1981, examines the impact of these two important developments and casts new light on the way in which law enforcement evolved during the nineteenth century. This title will be of interest to students of history and criminology.
Author: Rosalind Crone
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2013-01-18
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 184779470X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy drawing attention to the wide range of gruesome, bloody and confronting amusements patronised by ordinary Londoners this book challenges our understanding of Victorian society and culture. From the turn of the nineteenth century, graphic, yet orderly, ‘re-enactments’ of high level violence flourished in travelling entertainments, penny broadsides, popular theatres, cheap instalment fiction and Sunday newspapers. This book explores the ways in which these entertainments siphoned off much of the actual violence that had hitherto been expressed in all manner of social and political dealings, thus providing a crucial accompaniment to schemes for the reformation of manners and the taming of the streets, while also serving as a social safety valve and a check on the growing cultural hegemony of the middle class.
