‘Liable to Very Gross Abuse’: Murder, Moral Panic and Cultural Fears over Infant Life Insurance, 1875–1914

Social Sciences

• life insurance 100%
• homicide 65%
• infant 59%
• abuse 52%
• working class 45%
• anxiety 44%
• parliament 42%
• life insurance policies 40%
• case of child abuse 35%
• Western world 26%
• number of children 23%
• nineteenth century 22%
• critic 21%
• neglect 20%
• rhetoric 19%
• politician 19%
• newspaper 19%
• incentive 18%
• offense 15%

Arts & Humanities

• Moral Panic 95%
• Abuse 77%
• Murder 65%
• Insurance 52%
• Homicide 50%
• Working Class 47%
• Parliament 33%
• Child Abuse 30%
• Nineteenth-century Britain 22%
• Cruelty 19%
• Refutation 19%
• Anxiety 18%
• Rhetoric 18%
• Incentives 18%
• 1890s 18%
• 1880s 18%
• Charts 17%
• Neglect 17%
• Crime 15%
• Regular 14%
• Policymaker 14%