We've learned of a special issue of SOLON: Journal of Law, Crime & History 7:1 (2017) on "The Child at Risk in Modern Britain." Daniel J. R. Grey is the guest editor. Here is the line-up:
Daniel J. R. Grey, Introduction: The
Child at Risk in Modern Britain, 1-15
Margaret L. Arnot, Perceptions of
Parental Child Homicide in English Popular Visual Culture 1800-1850, 16-74
Kim Stevenson,, ‘Children of a Very Tender Age Have Vicious Propensities’: Child Witness Testimonies in Cases of Sexual Abuse, 75-97
Kim Stevenson,, ‘Children of a Very Tender Age Have Vicious Propensities’: Child Witness Testimonies in Cases of Sexual Abuse, 75-97
Judith Rowbotham, When
to Spare the Rod? Legal Reactions and Popular Attitudes Towards the
(In)Appropriate Chastisement of Children, 1850-1910, 98-125
Victoria Bates, The Child as
Risk: Precocious Girls and Sexual Consent in Late Victorian Britain, 126-144
Kate Bradley, Saving the Children of
Shoreditch: Lady Cynthia Colville and Needy Families in East London,
c.1900-1960, 145-163
Conference Report
Rhiannon Pickin, Lives Trials and
Executions, Liverpool, 24 May 2017, 164-168
Further information is available here.
