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This chapter will focus on violent behaviour in early 21st century Britain. However, 'violence' is clearly a dynamic concept that varies greatly across time and place. In a different century the violent actions routinely condemned in modern Britain might not have been illegal - indeed, might even have been encouraged - domestic abuse being a case in point. Wood (2004: 23) noted that in 18th century England, 'Violence was not merely a reluctantly acknowledged 'fact of life': rather, the early modern state, community and home were all arenas in which violence was an accepted - indeed, an expected - means of expressing legitimate social power'.
Iaith wreiddiol | Saesneg |
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Teitl | The Oxford Handbook of Criminology |
Golygyddion | Mike Maguire, Rod Morgan, Robert Reiner |
Cyhoeddwr | Oxford University Press |
Tudalennau | 563-594 |
Argraffiad | 5th |
ISBN (Argraffiad) | 9780199590278 |
Statws | Cyhoeddwyd - 12 Ebrill 2012 |