Certain other countries : homicide, gender, and national identity in late nineteenth-century England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales

Resource Information

The work Certain other countries : homicide, gender, and national identity in late nineteenth-century England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Certain other countries : homicide, gender, and national identity in late nineteenth-century England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales

Title remainder

homicide, gender, and national identity in late nineteenth-century England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales

Statement of responsibility

Carolyn A. Conley

Creator

• Conley, Carolyn, 1953-
• Conley, Carolyn, 1953-

Subject

• Homicide -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies
• Marginality, Social -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• Murderers -- Great Britain -- Psychology
• Criminal behavior -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• Social status -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• Prejudices -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• Family violence -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century

Genre

• Case studies

Language

eng

Summary

"In Certain Other Countries, Carolyn A. Conley explores how the concepts of national identity and criminal violence influenced each other in the Victorian-era United Kingdom. It also addresses the differences among the nations as well as the ways that homicide trials illuminate the issues of gender, ethnicity, family, privacy, property, and class. Homicides reflect assumptions about the proper balance of power in various relationships. For example, Englishmen were ten times more likely to kill women they were courting than were men in the Celtic nations." "By combining quantitative techniques in the analysis of over seven thousand cases, as well as careful and detailed readings of individual cases, the book exposes trends and patterns that might not have been evident in works using only one method. For instance, by examining all homicide trials rather than concentrating exclusively on a few highly celebrated ones, it becomes clear that most female killers were not viewed with particular horror, but were treated much like their male counterparts."--BOOK JACKET

Cataloging source

DLC

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

LC call number

HV6535.G4

LC item number

C66 2007

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

History of crime and criminal justice series