Contents
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Table of Cases
Table of Statutes
Contributors
Introduction
Judith Rowbotham and Kim Stevenson
Section One: Identifying the Causes and Impacts of Bad Behaviour
Beyond the Bounds of Respectable Society: the 'Dangerous Classes' in Victorian and Edwardian England
David Taylor
The Press and the Public Visibility of Nineteenth-Century Criminal Children
Jane Abbott
Religion, Rural Society and Moral Panic in Mid-Victorian England
Gary Moses
A Victorian Financial Crisis: The Scandalous Implications of the Case of Overend Gurney
Paul Barnes
Larceny: Debating the 'Boundless Region of Dishonesty
Graham Ferris
Section Two: 'External' Threats to the Security of Society
Criminal Savages? Or 'Civilizing' the Legal Process
Judith Rowbotham
Behaving Badly? Irish Migrants and 'Crime'
Roger Swift
Striking at Sodom and Gomorrah: The Medicalization of Male Homosexuality and Its Relation to the Law
Ivan Crozier
A Mania for Suspicion: Poisoning, Science and the Law
Tony Ward
A Little of What you Fancy Does You . . . Harm!! (with apologies to Marie Lloyd )
Sandra Morton
Section Three: The Threat from Within
The Eloquent Corpse: Gender, Probity and Bodily Integrity in Victorian Domestic Murder
Shani D'Cruze
She-Butchers: Baby-Droppers, Baby-Sweaters and Baby-Farmers
David Bentley
Sex, Wives and Prostitutes: Debating Clarence
Kate Gleeson
'Crimes of Moral Outrage:' Victorian Encryptions of Sexual Violence
Kim Stevenson
'Kicked, beaten, jumped on until they are crushed,' all under man's wing and protection: The Victorian Dilemma with Domestic Violence
Susan Edwards
Epilogue
Judith Rowbotham and Kim Stevenson
Appendix
Bibliography