CRIMINAL CONVERSATIONS: Victorian Crimes, Social Panic, and Moral Outrage

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