Violent Crime

Fiona Brookman, Amanda Robinson

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    Abstract

    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'.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationThe Oxford Handbook of Criminology
    EditorsMike Maguire, Rod Morgan, Robert Reiner
    PublisherOxford University Press
    Pages563-594
    Edition5th
    ISBN (Print)9780199590278
    Publication statusPublished - 12 Apr 2012

    Keywords

    • violence

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