Behaving Badly: Social Panic and Moral Outrage - Victorian and Modern Parallels

Behaving Badly examines crime that was socially visible in contemporary social panics and moral outrage in both the Victorian period and the late twentieth century. Through a series of interconnected case studies, exploring the social and legal responses to such offending, and their public presentation through popular reporting and the court system, Behaving Badly highlights a series of apparent continuities as well as discontinuities in the making of legislation.