In His Passionate Way’

Emotion, Race and Gender in Cases of Partner Murder in England and Wales, 1900–39

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8400524
AutoresL Seal (0000-0003-1727-9653, University of Sussex, autor de correspondencia), Alexa Neale (0000-0003-1127-5176, University of Sussex)
Año2020
Volumen60
Número4
Páginas811-829
Fecha de publicación2020-06-23
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe British Journal of Criminology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0007-0955 • E-ISSN: 1464-3529
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/bjc/azz085
OpenAlexW2997828537
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas42

This article examines 10 capital cases of men of colour sentenced to death in England and Wales for intimate murders of white British women during 1900–39. It argues that such cases enable analysis of the prevailing emotional norms of this era and the ways in which these were shaped by race, gender and class. Perceptions of intimate relationships as legitimate or illegitimate—judgments about who should feel what about whom—‘is’ related to understandings of citizenship. In revealing the emotional norms at play in cases of murder, it is possible to illustrate how the criminal justice system governed through emotion

Capital (architecture) · Citizenship · Criminal justice · Criminology · Economic Justice · Perception · Political science · Politics · Race (biology) · Sociology · White (mutation) · Gender Studies · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · History of Emotions Research · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology