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Infanticide And Baby-Farming In Victorian England - The Torquay Murder Of 1865

by Professor Mark (University Of Exeter, Uk) Jackson

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 This book explores the social and cultural responses to infanticide and baby-farming in Victorian England, focusing particularly on the Torquay Murder of 1865 and the two women accused of committing the crime; Mary Jane Harris and Charlotte Winsor.
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Lombroso In The Americas - A Transatlantic History Of A Controversial Criminologist

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 This volume examines the impact, reception, circulation and refashioning of the criminological theories put forth by Cesare Lombroso in North and Latin America from the late 19th to the mid 20th century.
Wayward Girls In Victorian And Edwardian England - Pathways In And Out Of Juvenile Institutions, 1854-1920

by Tahaney (University Of Liverpool, Uk) Alghrani

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 A study of juvenile female offenders within the reformatory and industrial system during the Victorian era, exploring their reform, regulation and representations of immorality.
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Sex And Violence In 1920s Scotland - Incest, Rape, Lewd And Libidinous Practices, 1918-1930

by Louise (Oxford Brookes University, Uk) Heren

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 A study of sexual violence committed in 1920s Scotland through victim and witness testimonies.
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Mothers, Criminal Insanity And The Asylum In Victorian England - Cure, Redemption And Rehabilitation

by Alison C. (Independent Scholar, Uk) Pedley

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 A history of â€˜insaneâ€™ women committed to criminal lunatic institutions in Victorian England which argues that they were places of recuperation, recovery and rehabilitation.
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Wayward Girls In Victorian And Edwardian England - Pathways In And Out Of Juvenile Institutions, 1854-1920

by Tahaney Alghrani

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 A study of juvenile female offenders within the reformatory and industrial system during the Victorian era, exploring their reform, regulation and representations of immorality.
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Wayward Girls In Victorian And Edwardian England - Pathways In And Out Of Juvenile Institutions, 1854-1920

by Tahaney Alghrani

~~34,57€~~ 31,11€ 10% OFF

 A study of juvenile female offenders within the reformatory and industrial system during the Victorian era, exploring their reform, regulation and representations of immorality.
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Sex And Violence In 1920s Scotland - Incest, Rape, Lewd And Libidinous Practices, 1918-1930

by Louise Heren

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 A study of sexual violence committed in 1920s Scotland through victim and witness testimonies.
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Sex And Violence In 1920s Scotland - Incest, Rape, Lewd And Libidinous Practices, 1918-1930

by Louise Heren

34,57€ + 10% CARD

 A study of sexual violence committed in 1920s Scotland through victim and witness testimonies.
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Wayward Girls In Victorian And Edwardian England - Pathways In And Out Of Juvenile Institutions, 1854-1920

by Tahaney (University Of Liverpool, Uk) Alghrani

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 A study of juvenile female offenders within the reformatory and industrial system during the Victorian era, exploring their reform, regulation and representations of immorality.
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Mothers, Criminal Insanity And The Asylum In Victorian England - Cure, Redemption And Rehabilitation

by Alison C. Pedley

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 A history of â€˜insaneâ€™ women committed to criminal lunatic institutions in Victorian England which argues that they were places of recuperation, recovery and rehabilitation.
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Mothers, Criminal Insanity And The Asylum In Victorian England - Cure, Redemption And Rehabilitation

by Alison C. Pedley

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 Tracing the experiences of women who were designated insane by judicial processes from 1850 to 1900, this book considers the ideas and purposes of incarceration in three dedicated facilities: Bethlem, Fisherton House and Broadmoor. The majority of these patients had murdered, or attempted to murder, their own children but were not necessarily condemned as incurably evil by medical and legal authorities, nor by general society. Alison C. Pedley explores how insanity gave the Victorians an acceptable explanation for these dreadful crimes, and as a result, how admission to a dedicated asylum was viewed as the safest and most human solution for the ''madwomen'' as well as for society as a whole. Mothers, Criminal Insanity and the Asylum in Victorian England considers the experiences, treatments and regimes women underwent in an attempt to redeem and rehabilitate them, and return them to into a patriarchal society. It shows how society''s views of the institutions and insanity were not necessarily negative or coloured by fear and revulsion, and highlights the changes in attitudes to female criminal lunacy in the second half of the 19th century. Through extensive and detailed research into the three asylums'' archives and in legal, governmental, press and genealogical records, this book sheds new light on the views of the patients themselves, and contributes to the historiography of Victorian criminal lunatic asylums, conceptualising them as places of recovery, rehabilitation and restitution.
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Mothers, Criminal Insanity And The Asylum In Victorian England - Cure, Redemption And Rehabilitation

by Alison C. (Independent Scholar, Uk) Pedley

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 A history of â€˜insaneâ€™ women committed to criminal lunatic institutions in Victorian England which argues that they were places of recuperation, recovery and rehabilitation.
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Male Suicide And Masculinity In 19th-Century Britain - Stories Of Self-Destruction

by Lyndsay Galpin

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 This book shows how interpretations of suicidal motives were guided by gendered expectations of behaviour, and that these expectations were constructed to create meaning and understanding for family, friends and witnesses. Providing an insight into how people of this era understood suicidal behaviour and motives, it challenges the assertion that suicide was seen as a distinctly feminine act, and that men who took their own lives were feminized as a result. Instead, it shows that masculinity was understood in a more nuanced way than gender binaries allow, and that a man''s masculinity was measured against other men. Focusing on four common narrative types; the love-suicide, the unemployed suicide, the suicide of the fraudster or speculator, and the suicide of the dishonoured solider, it provides historical context to modern discussions about the crisis of masculinity and rising male suicide rates. It reveals that narratives around male suicides are not so different today as they were then, and that our modern model of masculinity can be traced back to the 19th century.
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Male Suicide And Masculinity In 19th-Century Britain - Stories Of Self-Destruction

by Lyndsay Galpin

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 This book shows how interpretations of suicidal motives were guided by gendered expectations of behaviour, and that these expectations were constructed to create meaning and understanding for family, friends and witnesses. Providing an insight into how people of this era understood suicidal behaviour and motives, it challenges the assertion that suicide was seen as a distinctly feminine act, and that men who took their own lives were feminized as a result. Instead, it shows that masculinity was understood in a more nuanced way than gender binaries allow, and that a man''s masculinity was measured against other men. Focusing on four common narrative types; the love-suicide, the unemployed suicide, the suicide of the fraudster or speculator, and the suicide of the dishonoured solider, it provides historical context to modern discussions about the crisis of masculinity and rising male suicide rates. It reveals that narratives around male suicides are not so different today as they were then, and that our modern model of masculinity can be traced back to the 19th century.
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Probation And The Policing Of The Private Sphere In Britain, 1907-1962

by Louise Settle

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 In 1907 the Probation of Offenders Act introduced a system which allowed offenders to be rehabilitated at home under supervision, rather than being sent to prison. This book explores how the probation system was used to regulate the private lives, emotions and behaviours of people in Britain between 1907 and 1962. Access to the private sphere, both physically and psychologically, meant that the probation system was particularly well-suited to offences related to intimate and personal relations. With each chapter focusing on a particular type of offence, including wife assault, attempted suicide, male sexual offences and female prostitution, Settle shows how experiences of the probationers were shaped by the everyday practices of probation, and assesses the extent to which probation was successful in rehabilitating offenders and protecting the public. Also examining the role of probation officers in marriage reconciliation, the book explores how ideas about gender and domesticity were crucial to both the process of rehabilitation and the endeavour to make the home a safe environment in which these domestic ideals could come into fruition. Probation and Policing of the Private Sphere in Britain enriches our understanding of the role of the state in policing, monitoring and promoting the well-being of its citizens, and explores the nuances of probation''s dual purpose as a form of social control as well as a social work service designed to help the most vulnerable in society.
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Probation And The Policing Of The Private Sphere In Britain, 1907-1962

by Louise Settle

35,76€ + 10% CARD

 In 1907 the Probation of Offenders Act introduced a system which allowed offenders to be rehabilitated at home under supervision, rather than being sent to prison. This book explores how the probation system was used to regulate the private lives, emotions and behaviours of people in Britain between 1907 and 1962. Access to the private sphere, both physically and psychologically, meant that the probation system was particularly well-suited to offences related to intimate and personal relations. With each chapter focusing on a particular type of offence, including wife assault, attempted suicide, male sexual offences and female prostitution, Settle shows how experiences of the probationers were shaped by the everyday practices of probation, and assesses the extent to which probation was successful in rehabilitating offenders and protecting the public. Also examining the role of probation officers in marriage reconciliation, the book explores how ideas about gender and domesticity were crucial to both the process of rehabilitation and the endeavour to make the home a safe environment in which these domestic ideals could come into fruition. Probation and Policing of the Private Sphere in Britain enriches our understanding of the role of the state in policing, monitoring and promoting the well-being of its citizens, and explores the nuances of probation''s dual purpose as a form of social control as well as a social work service designed to help the most vulnerable in society.
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Male Suicide And Masculinity In 19th-Century Britain - Stories Of Self-Destruction

by Lyndsay Galpin

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 This volume examines the narratives that surrounded male suicide in 19th-century Britain to explore what they reveal about the moral values of masculinity at the time.
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Photographing Crime Scenes In Twentieth-Century London - Microhistories Of Domestic Murder

by Alexa Neale

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 How can we read crime scenes through photography? Making use of micro-histories of domestic murder and crime scene photographs made available for the first time, Alexa Neale provides a highly original exploration of what crime scenes can tell us about the significance of expectations of domesticity, class, gender, race, privacy and relationships in twentieth-century Britain. With 10 case studies and 30 black and white images, Photographing Crime Scenes in 20th-Century London will take you inside the homes that were murder crime scenes to read their geographical and symbolic meanings in the light of the development of crime scene photography, forensic analysis and psychological testing. In doing so, it reveals how photographs of domestic objects and spaces were often used to recreate a narrative for the murder based on the defendant''s perceived identity rather than to prove if they committed the crime at all. Bringing the history of crime, British social and cultural history and the history of forensic photography to the analysis of the crime scene, this study offers fascinating details on the changing public and private lives of Londoners in the 20th century.
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Photographing Crime Scenes In Twentieth-Century London - Microhistories Of Domestic Murder

by Alexa Neale

38,15€ + 10% CARD

 How can we read crime scenes through photography? Making use of micro-histories of domestic murder and crime scene photographs made available for the first time, Alexa Neale provides a highly original exploration of what crime scenes can tell us about the significance of expectations of domesticity, class, gender, race, privacy and relationships in twentieth-century Britain. With 10 case studies and 30 black and white images, Photographing Crime Scenes in 20th-Century London will take you inside the homes that were murder crime scenes to read their geographical and symbolic meanings in the light of the development of crime scene photography, forensic analysis and psychological testing. In doing so, it reveals how photographs of domestic objects and spaces were often used to recreate a narrative for the murder based on the defendant''s perceived identity rather than to prove if they committed the crime at all. Bringing the history of crime, British social and cultural history and the history of forensic photography to the analysis of the crime scene, this study offers fascinating details on the changing public and private lives of Londoners in the 20th century.
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Combating London S Criminal Class - A State Divided, 1869-95

by Matthew Bach

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 The criminal class was seen as a violent, immoral and dissolute sub-section of Victorian London''s population. Making their living through crime and openly hostile to society, the lives of these criminals were characterised by drunkenness, theft and brutality. This book explores whether this criminal class did indeed truly exist, and the effectivenessof measures brought against it. Tracing the notion of the criminal class from as early as the 16th century, this book questions whether this sub-section of society did indeed exist. Bach discusses how unease of London''s notorious rookeries, the frenzy of media attention and a [word deleted here] panic among the general public enforced and encouraged the fear of the ''criminal class'' and perpetuated state efforts of social control. Using the Habitual Criminals Bills, this book explores how and why this legislation was introduced to deal with repeat offenders, and assesses how successful its repressive measures were. Demonstrating how the Metropolitan Police Force and London''s Magistrates were not always willing tools of the British state, this book uses court records and private correspondence to reveal how inconsistent and unsuccessful many of these measures and punishments were, and calls into question the notion that the state gained control over recidivists in this period.
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Combating London S Criminal Class - A State Divided, 1869-95

by Matthew Bach

38,15€ + 10% CARD

 The criminal class was seen as a violent, immoral and dissolute sub-section of Victorian London''s population. Making their living through crime and openly hostile to society, the lives of these criminals were characterised by drunkenness, theft and brutality. This book explores whether this criminal class did indeed truly exist, and the effectivenessof measures brought against it. Tracing the notion of the criminal class from as early as the 16th century, this book questions whether this sub-section of society did indeed exist. Bach discusses how unease of London''s notorious rookeries, the frenzy of media attention and a [word deleted here] panic among the general public enforced and encouraged the fear of the ''criminal class'' and perpetuated state efforts of social control. Using the Habitual Criminals Bills, this book explores how and why this legislation was introduced to deal with repeat offenders, and assesses how successful its repressive measures were. Demonstrating how the Metropolitan Police Force and London''s Magistrates were not always willing tools of the British state, this book uses court records and private correspondence to reveal how inconsistent and unsuccessful many of these measures and punishments were, and calls into question the notion that the state gained control over recidivists in this period.
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Life Courses Of Young Convicts Transported To Van Diemen'S Land

by Emma D. Watkins

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 Drawing on digital criminal records, this book traces the life courses of young convicts who were sentenced at the Old Bailey and transported to Van Diemen''s Land in the early 19th century. It explores the everyday lives of the convicts pre- and post-transportation, focusing on their crimes, punishments, education, employment and family life right up to their deaths. Emma D. Watkins contextualizes these young convicts within the punishment system, economy and culture that they were thrust into by their forced movement to Australia. This allows an understanding of the factors which determined their chances of achieving a ''settled life'' away from crime in the colony. Packed with case studies offering vivid accounts of the offenders'' lives, Life Courses of Young Convicts Transported to Van Diemen''s Land makes an important contribution to the history of transportation, social history and Australian history.
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Life Courses Of Young Convicts Transported To Van Diemen'S Land

by Emma D. Watkins

39,34€ + 10% CARD

 Drawing on digital criminal records, this book traces the life courses of young convicts who were sentenced at the Old Bailey and transported to Van Diemen''s Land in the early 19th century. It explores the everyday lives of the convicts pre- and post-transportation, focusing on their crimes, punishments, education, employment and family life right up to their deaths. Emma D. Watkins contextualizes these young convicts within the punishment system, economy and culture that they were thrust into by their forced movement to Australia. This allows an understanding of the factors which determined their chances of achieving a ''settled life'' away from crime in the colony. Packed with case studies offering vivid accounts of the offenders'' lives, Life Courses of Young Convicts Transported to Van Diemen''s Land makes an important contribution to the history of transportation, social history and Australian history.
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