The Rough: Marginal Criminality, 1880-1920 Marginal Criminality, 1880-1920
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Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
Juni 2010
Verlag
Willan PubSeitenzahl
256
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-84392-171-4
The Rough examines the emergence of discourses on the character of the urban poor of ~'the rough,' and how this label came to assume definitional power during the mid to late Victorian period in England. The book describes the imaginary space between the two concepts of 'the respectable poor' and the 'criminal class,' and seeks to develop a more sophisticated understanding of those on the margins of the criminal underworld at the turn of the twentieth century. The Rough is therefore concerned not with the notorious criminal, nor even the habitual criminal, but with those who were infrequent robbers, even though frequently drunk and disorderly, and those who were not violent robbers, but who were often involved in street-fighting. It looks to the unruly, the disreputable, the stand-up drunk, and the fighting working class dwellers of many towns and cities throughout Victorian England. In other words, it is concerned with those who occupied the hinterland rather than the heartland of cri
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