Behaving Badly: Social Panic and Moral Outrage - Victorian and Modern Parallels

ISBN-13: 9780754609650 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 272 str.

Rowbotham, Judith

Opis

Both the Victorian age and the late 20th century are often characterized by contemporaries as times of apparent economic affluence and stability. They are also often characterized as periods which both shared a conviction that the stability of society, including its affluence, was threatened by the activities of social deviants. The essays in this volume seek to examine crime of a socially visible nature, in the context of social panic and moral outrage in both the Victorian period and the late 20th century. Through a series of interconnected case studies, exploring the social and legal responses to such offending, and their public presentation through popular reporting and the court system, a series of apparent continuities as well as discontinuities are highlighted in the making of legislation.

Spis treści

Contents: Foreword; Preface; Introduction: Behaving badly, Judith Rowbotham and Kim Stevenson; Acquitting the innocent. Convicting the guilty. Delivering justice?, David Bentley; Causing a sensation: media and legal representations of bad behaviour, Judith Rowbotham and Kim Stevenson; Policing a myth, managing an illusion: Victorian and contemporary crime recording, Tom Williamson; Policing bad behaviour - interrogating the dilemmas, Roger Hopkins Burke; Law and disorder: Victorian restraint and modern panic, Kiron Reid; Moral cancers: fraud and respectable crime, Sarah Wilson; The blast of blasphemy. Government, law and culture confront a chill wind, David Nash; A dangerous obsession? Gambling and social stability, Mike Ahearne; Legislating morality: Victorian and modern legal responses to pornography, Tom Lewis; Penny dreadfuls and perverse domains: Victorian and modern moral panics, Gavin Sutter; Discourses of denial and moral panics: the pornographisation of the child in art, the written word, film and photograph, Susan Edwards; Why can't a woman be more like a man? Attitudes to husband-murder 1889-1989, Judith Knelman; Gendered assumptions - madness, pregnancy and childbirth, M.E. Rodgers; From unlawful assembly to aggravated trespass: the control of protest in the 1880s and 1990s, Richard Stone; Further reading; Index.

O autorze

Judith Rowbotham, Kim Stevenson