Men of blood violence, manliness and criminal justice in Victorian England /
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| Lingua: | inglese |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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Sommario:
- 1. Violence and Law, Gender and Law
- 2. When Men Killed Men
- 3. Sexual Violence
- 4. Homicidal Women and Homicidal Men: A Growing Contrast
- 5. Bad Wives: Drunkenness and Other Provocations
- 6. Bad Wives II: Adultery and the Unwritten Law
- 7. Establishing Intention: Probing the Mind of a Wife Killer
- Conclusion: The New "Reasonable Man" and Twentieth-Century Britain.