ENGLISH

Crime and Punishment in England: An Introductory History

By John Briggs , Christopher Harrison , Angus McInnes , David Vincent (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Year
1996
ISBN
978-0-312-16331-0, 978-1-137-08178-0
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
16 MB (16357558 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
VIII, 276\271
Time added
2017-08-08 21:00:00
History of Britain and Ireland

Description

Front Matter....Pages i-viii The medieval origins of the English criminal justice system....Pages 1-13 Front Matter....Pages 15-15 Crime and the courts in early modern England....Pages 17-31 Church courts and manor courts....Pages 33-46 The machinery of law enforcement....Pages 47-59 Imposing the law....Pages 61-71 Punishment....Pages 73-86 Socio-political crime....Pages 87-99 Front Matter....Pages 101-101 The ordering of society....Pages 103-120 The changing nature of crime in the nineteenth century....Pages 121-139 The policing of society....Pages 141-156 Patterns of punishment....Pages 157-173 Front Matter....Pages 175-175 Patterns of crime....Pages 177-191 Bad behaviour....Pages 193-208 Professional law....Pages 209-225 Ordering punishment....Pages 227-244 Epilogue....Pages 245-251 Back Matter....Pages 253-276

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