To Be Published March 15th 2014 by Routledge – 224 pages
Series: Routledge SOLON Explorations in Crime and Criminal Justice Histories
Though there has been much work on the change in attitudes to violence since the late eighteenth century, little attention has been paid to the gendered profile of its development, the consequent differential cultural understandings of criminality manifested by men and women as well as the wider contextualization of violence within society.
This book examines the gendering of violence from the late eighteenth century onwards and reflects on the extent to which gender expectations have continued, into the twentieth century at least, to shape the attitudes of legislators, legal personnel, and the criminal justice process towards types of violence and types of performers of that violence.
1. Gendering Public Society, 2. De-Moralising the Economy of the Crowd, 3. Criminalising Interpersonal Violence, 4.Culturally Convincing the Public, 5. Shocking Behaviour - Public Reactions to the Suffragettes, 6. Restoring Order, Reinforcing the Law, 7. Reacting with Violence, 8. Conclusion.
Judith Rowbotham is Reader in Historical Criminal Justice Studies at Nottingham Trent University.
Name: Crime, Violence and Visibility: Gendering Understandings of Violence, Disorder and Protest in England and Wales 1784-2010 (Hardback) – Routledge
Description: By Judith Rowbotham. Though there has been much work on the change in attitudes to violence since the late eighteenth century, little attention has been paid to the gendered profile of its development, the consequent differential cultural understandings of criminality...
Categories: Criminology and Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice History, Gender Studies - Soc Sci, Gender Studies, British History, Women's & Gender History, Social & Cultural History, Criminology - Law, Socio-Legal Studies, Historical Criminology - Criminology Law, Violent Crime
