The Rough: Marginal Criminality, 1880-1920 Contributor(s): Godfrey, Barry (Author), Godfrey (Author) |
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ISBN: 1843921715 ISBN-13: 9781843921714 Publisher: Willan Publishing (UK) OUR PRICE: $69.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 2010 Annotation: The Rough examines the emergence of discourses on the character of the urban poor of |
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BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Criminology |
Dewey: 364.942 |
Physical Information: 256 pages |
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Publisher Description: This work is concerned with the unruly, disreputable, stand-up drunk, fighting working class dwellers of many towns and cities in Victorian England. Its theories connect and interact with wider debates, including conceptions of violence in late modernity and the demise or growth of civility. |