| Crime in England: 1550-1800 Contributor(s): Cockburn, J. S. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1138942782 ISBN-13: 9781138942783 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $52.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Great Britain - General - Social Science | Criminology - History | Historiography |
| Series: Routledge Library Editions: The History of Crime and Punishm |
| Physical Information: 380 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume, first published in 1977, brings together eleven studies of crime and the administration of the criminal law in England during the early modern period. They represent a variety of approaches - legal, historical and sociological - to the study of historical crime. The initial essay in this study, which is written from a legal standpoint, is the first coordinated account of the structure of criminal law administration in this formative period. It is followed by investigations into the nature and incidence of crime, court appearance and punishment, separate studies of witchcraft, infanticide and poaching, and an account of conditions in eighteenth-century Newgate. This book will be of particular interest to students of criminology and history. |