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Martin Wiener examines the treatment of serious violence by men against women in the 19th century England, as criminal law came to punish such violence more systematically and heavily while propagating a new, more pacific idea of manliness. He also explores the resistance to this progressive legal development.Wiener, Martin J. is the author of 'Men of Blood Violence, Manliness, And Criminal Justice in Victorian England', published 2006 under ISBN 9780521684163 and ISBN 0521684161.
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