Men of Blood: Violence, Manliness, and Criminal Justice in by Martin J. Wiener

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By Martin J. Wiener

An exam of the therapy of significant violence via males opposed to girls in nineteenth-century England. in the course of Victoria's reign the legal legislation got here to punish such violence extra systematically and seriously, whereas propagating a brand new, extra pacific excellent of manliness. but this it seems that revolutionary criminal improvement referred to as forth robust resistance, not just from violent males themselves yet, from others who drew upon discourses of democracy, humanitarianism and patriarchy to set up sympathy with 'men of blood'. In exploring this improvement and the competition it generated, Professor Wiener analyzes the cultural common sense underlying transferring practices in nineteenth-century courts and Whitehall, and locates competing cultural discourses within the way of life of legal justice. The tensions and dilemmas this e-book highlights are greater than easily 'Victorian' ones; to a major measure they continue to be with us. for that reason this paintings speaks not just to historians and to scholars of gender but in addition to criminologists and felony theorists.

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