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

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Autore principale: Wiener, Martin J.
Ente Autore: ebrary, Inc
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: 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.