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 Sherman Library  HV6950.E5 C75 2005    AVAILABLE  
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Title Criminal conversations : Victorian crimes, social panic, and moral outrage / edited by Judith Rowbotham and Kim Stevenson.
OCLC 56793821
ISBN 0814209734 (cloth : alk. paper)
0814290434 (CD-ROM)
Publisher Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2005]
©2005
Description xxxii, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
LC Subject heading/s 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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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 -- '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--harm!! (with apologies to Marie Lloyd ) / Sandra Morton -- 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.
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