Behaving badly : social panic and moral outrage--Victorian and modern parallels /: social panic and moral outrage--Victorian and modern parallels. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Judith Rowbotham and Kim Stevenson.
• Other Names: Rowbotham, Judith; Stevenson, Kim
• Contents: 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 social 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.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (272 pages)
• Subjects: 364.941/09034; Crime -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Crime -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Crime -- Great Britain -- Public opinion -- History; Deviant behavior -- Great Britain -- Public opinion -- History; Criminal law -- Great Britain; Crime; Crime -- Public opinion; Criminal law; Deviant behavior -- Public opinion; Criminaliteit; Publieke opinie; Wetgeving; Moraal; Kriminalität; Öffentliche Meinung; Geschichte 1820-2000; Aufsatzsammlung; Kriminalität; Öffentliche Meinung; Great Britain; Großbritannien; Großbritannien; History; Aufsatzsammlung
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351955874
• Related ISBNs: 135195587X
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