Judith Rowbotham

Crime, Violence and Visibility

Gendering Understandings of Violence, Disorder and Protest in England and Wales 1784-2010. Sprache: Englisch.

gebunden , 224 Seiten

ISBN 0415811147

EAN 9780415811149

Veröffentlicht 5. Januar 2026

Verlag/Hersteller Taylor & Francis Ltd

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Beschreibung

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.

Portrait

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).