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

An examination of the treatment of serious violence by men against women in nineteenth-century England. During Victoria's reign the criminal law came to punish such violence more systematically and heavily, while propagating a new, more pacific ideal of manliness. Yet this apparently progressiv...

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Main Author: Wiener, Martin J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2004
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511511547
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511511547
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511511547
Summary:An examination of the treatment of serious violence by men against women in nineteenth-century England. During Victoria's reign the criminal law came to punish such violence more systematically and heavily, while propagating a new, more pacific ideal of manliness. Yet this apparently progressive legal development called forth strong resistance, not only from violent men themselves but, from others who drew upon discourses of democracy, humanitarianism and patriarchy to establish sympathy with 'men of blood'. In exploring this development and the contest it generated, Professor Wiener analyzes the cultural logic underlying shifting practices in nineteenth-century courts and Whitehall, and locates competing cultural discourses in the everyday life of criminal justice. The tensions and dilemmas this book highlights are more than simply 'Victorian' ones; to an important degree they remain with us. Consequently this work speaks not only to historians and to students of gender but also to criminologists and legal theorists
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Physical Description:1 online resource (xvi, 296 pages)
ISBN:9780511511547
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511511547

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