Judith Rowbotham and Kim Stevenson
Ashgate
Hardback
270
2003
Behaving Badly examines crime that was socially visible in contemporary social panics and moral outrage in both the Victorian period and the late twentieth century. Through a series of interconnected case studies exploring the social and legal responses to such offending and their public presentation through popular reporting and the court system Behaving Badly highlights a series of apparent continuities as well as discontinuities in the making of legislation.
Ashgate
Hardback
270
2003
Behaving Badly examines crime that was socially visible in contemporary social panics and moral outrage in both the Victorian period and the late twentieth century. Through a series of interconnected case studies exploring the social and legal responses to such offending and their public presentation through popular reporting and the court system Behaving Badly highlights a series of apparent continuities as well as discontinuities in the making of legislation.