Men of blood [electronic resource] : violence, manliness and criminal justice in Victorian England / Martin J. Wiener.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.Description: xvi, 296 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 364.15/23/094209034 21
LOC classification:
  • HV6535.G42 E64 2004eb
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Contents:
1. Violence and Law, Gender and Law -- 2. When Men Killed Men -- 3. Sexual Violence -- 4. Homicidal Women and Homicidal Men: A Growing Contrast -- 5. Bad Wives: Drunkenness and Other Provocations -- 6. Bad Wives II: Adultery and the Unwritten Law -- 7. Establishing Intention: Probing the Mind of a Wife Killer -- Conclusion: The New "Reasonable Man" and Twentieth-Century Britain.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Violence and Law, Gender and Law -- 2. When Men Killed Men -- 3. Sexual Violence -- 4. Homicidal Women and Homicidal Men: A Growing Contrast -- 5. Bad Wives: Drunkenness and Other Provocations -- 6. Bad Wives II: Adultery and the Unwritten Law -- 7. Establishing Intention: Probing the Mind of a Wife Killer -- Conclusion: The New "Reasonable Man" and Twentieth-Century Britain.

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