Crime, Violence and Visibility - Gendering Understandings of Violence, Disorder Protest in England

This book examines the gendering of violence from the late 18th century onwards and reflects on the extent to which gender expectations have continued, into the 20th century at least, to shape criminal justice and its attitude towards violence.

List of contents

1. Gendering Public Society  2. De-Moralising the Economy of the Crowd  3. Criminalising Interpersonal Violence  4.Culturally Convincing the Public  5. Shocking Behaviour - Public Reactions to the Suffragettes  6. Restoring Order, Reinforcing the Law  7. Reacting with Violence  8. Conclusion.

About the author

Judith Rowbotham is a full-time independent scholar based in London, co-founder and Director of SOLON, and one of the General Editors of the Routledge SOLON series and Honorary Research Fellow at Plymouth University in the Plymouth Law School. Her research interests include the presentation or reportage of the legal process, including the criminal justice system, in various non-fiction and fiction formats, and issues of gender, violence and cultural comprehensions of the law in action, from the late-eighteenth century to the present. Recent publications include the afore-mentioned Crime News in Modern Britain. Press Reporting & Responsibility, 1820-2010 (Palgrave, 2013) and Shame, Blame, and Culpability: Crime and violence in the modern state [edited with Marianna Muravyeva, and David Nash] (Routledge, 2012).

Summary

This book examines the gendering of violence from the late 18th century onwards and reflects on the extent to which gender expectations have continued, into the 20th century at least, to shape criminal justice and its attitude towards violence.

Product details

• Authors: Dr. Judith Rowbotham, Judith Rowbotham, Judith (University of Plymouth Rowbotham
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 05.01.2026
• EAN: 9780415811149
• ISBN: 978-0-415-81114-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Routledge SOLON Explorations in Crime and Criminal Justice Histories
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Social & cultural history, Social and cultural history, Legal aspects of criminology, Gender studies, gender groups, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Criminal justice law, Violence and abuse in society, Social law and Medical law