J. Carter Wood, Violence and crime in nineteenth-century England: The shadow of our refinement, London and New York, Routledge
Our understanding of inter-personal violence, like our understandings of other social relations, changes over time. In the contemporary British popular press, among some social commentators and politicians assertions are commonly made about an increasing tide of violence sweeping across the country...
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Crime, Histoire & Sociétés
2009
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| Online adgang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Summary: | Our understanding of inter-personal violence, like our understandings of other social relations, changes over time. In the contemporary British popular press, among some social commentators and politicians assertions are commonly made about an increasing tide of violence sweeping across the country. This may be true, but proving it, as opposed to asserting it, is impossible. John Carter Wood’s book makes a valuable contribution to the debate about violence in Britain, or more specifically En... |
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