SOLON Law, Crime and History - Volume 09 - 2019https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/handle/10026.1/142332024-03-27T23:11:32Z2024-03-27T23:11:32ZManipulating the Media: Victorian Lawyers, Transportation, and the Creation of Panic over Habitual CriminalsRowbotham, Judithhttps://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/handle/10026.1/142462019-06-11T12:30:10Z2019-01-01T00:00:00ZManipulating the Media: Victorian Lawyers, Transportation, and the Creation of Panic over Habitual Criminals
Rowbotham, Judith
This article explores the largely forgotten attempts by key members of the legal profession in mid-nineteenth England to bring about a government rethink on the decision to abandon transportation. By creating alarm and despondency about the danger posed by introduction of the ticket-of-leave system to the United Kingdom, they hoped to generate popular pressure for a continuation of transportation overseas. To achieve this, the legal profession made use of their influence over the content of crime reportage to challenge the assurances given by figures like Colonel Jebb about the positive early results of domestic penal servitude and to generate widespread concern about the transference of a convict stain back to the UK. A number of destinations were suggested, with serious consideration being given to both the Falkland Islands and Vancouver Island. The attempt to establish a mass-based popular movement to continue transportation failed, but the result was an enduring legacy of public alarm over recidivism and its threat.
2019-01-01T00:00:00ZExamining Constructions of Perpetrators and Victims in Early Twentieth Century Canadian Newspaper Accounts of FemicidesKelly, Katharinehttps://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/handle/10026.1/142452019-06-11T11:34:49Z2019-01-01T00:00:00ZExamining Constructions of Perpetrators and Victims in Early Twentieth Century Canadian Newspaper Accounts of Femicides
Kelly, Katharine
This article examines how spousal femicides were framed in Ontario newspapers in the first decade of the twentieth century. Newspaper accounts served as a primary source of information, understandings, and perspectives on crime, criminality, and the law. Accounts of intimate killings presented the events as ‘news worthy’ and simultaneously sought to minimise challenges to patriarchal values in marriage. Media coverage employed an individualised model of crime and focused on perpetrators as non-normal (failed) or abnormal men. Intemperance, immigration status, and social class were used to ‘other’ perpetrators. Victim blaming was relatively uncommon except in cases of female infidelity.
2019-01-01T00:00:00ZReading Victorian Working-Class Expectations Of Fatherhood In Trials Of Paternal NegligenceLister, Aleshahttps://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/handle/10026.1/142442019-06-11T11:34:49Z2019-01-01T00:00:00ZReading Victorian Working-Class Expectations Of Fatherhood In Trials Of Paternal Negligence
Lister, Alesha
This article examines the complex dynamics of class and gender in criminal proceedings against of men charged with feloniously causing the death of their children through neglect of their paternal duties. The intersection of ideas about respectability, masculinity and fatherhood are explored through a range of archival material generated by trials of men charged with fatally neglecting their children at the Central Criminal Court of London between 1800 and 1913. I argue that the behaviour of men accused of neglect-based homicide not only fell short of middle-class expectations of fatherhood but contravened customary expectations of fatherhood within London's working-class communities. Legal rulings on what did, and did not, constitute paternal negligence amongst London’s poor reflected and were shaped by the dynamic interplay of middle-class and working-class ideas about fatherhood.
2019-01-01T00:00:00ZEditorial: SOLON Law, Crime and History Volume 9 No.1 2019Rowbotham, Judithhttps://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/handle/10026.1/142352019-06-11T11:34:49Z2019-01-01T00:00:00ZEditorial: SOLON Law, Crime and History Volume 9 No.1 2019
Rowbotham, Judith
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