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Behaving Badly Social Panic and Moral Outrage - Victorian and Modern Parallels
272 Pages
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Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
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Both the Victorian age and the late twentieth century are often characterised by contemporaries as times of apparent economic affluence and stability. They are often depicted as periods that shared a conviction that the stability of society, including its affluence, was threatened by the activities of social deviants. These essays aim to examine crime of a socially visible nature, in the context... Read more
Contents: Foreword; Preface; Introduction: Behaving badly, Judith Rowbotham and Kim Stevenson; Acquitting the innocent. Convicting the guilty. Delivering justice?, David Bentley; Causing a sensation: media and legal representations of bad behaviour, Judith Rowbotham and Kim Stevenson; Policing a myth, managing an illusion: Victorian and contemporary crime recording, Tom Williamson; Policing bad behaviour - interrogating the dilemmas, Roger Hopkins Burke; Law and disorder: Victorian restraint and modern panic, Kiron Reid; Moral cancers: fraud and respectable crime, Sarah Wilson; The blast of blasphemy. Government, law and culture confront a chill wind, David Nash; A dangerous obsession? Gambling and social stability, Mike Ahearne; Legislating morality: Victorian and modern legal responses to pornography, Tom Lewis; Penny dreadfuls and perverse domains: Victorian and modern moral panics, Gavin Sutter; Discourses of denial and moral panics: the pornographisation of the child in art, the written word, film and photograph, Susan Edwards; Why can't a woman be more like a man? Attitudes to husband-murder 1889-1989, Judith Knelman; Gendered assumptions - madness, pregnancy and childbirth, M.E. Rodgers; From unlawful assembly to aggravated trespass: the control of protest in the 1880s and 1990s, Richard Stone; Further reading; Index.
Biography
Judith Rowbotham, Kim Stevenson
