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

By Martin J. Wiener

An exam of the therapy of great violence via males opposed to girls in nineteenth-century England. in the course of Victoria's reign the legal legislations got here to punish such violence extra systematically and seriously, whereas propagating a brand new, extra pacific perfect of manliness. but this it sounds as if innovative felony improvement known as forth powerful 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 moving practices in nineteenth-century courts and Whitehall, and locates competing cultural discourses within the lifestyle of felony justice. The tensions and dilemmas this ebook highlights are greater than easily 'Victorian' ones; to a huge measure they continue to be with us. hence this paintings speaks not just to historians and to scholars of gender but in addition to criminologists and felony theorists.

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