Crime And Punishment In England

An Introductory History
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-138-14116-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 596 g

This survey of crime in ENgland from the medieval period to the present day synthesizes case-study and local-level material and standardizes the debates and issues for the student reader.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Briggs, John

Harrison, Christopher

McInnes, Angus

Vincent, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1 The medieval inheritance: defining crime; the medieval system in its prime. Part 2 The pre-industrial response to crime: Tudor crime; imposing the law; riots and political crime; punishments; manor courts. Part 3 Crime in industrial England: the control of society; threats to public order; crimes against property and the person; statutory creation of new crimes; law reform - policing, sentencing and punishing. Part 4 The making of the modern criminal: poverty, prosperity and the criminal; crime - and technology, sex, subversion, insanity, drink and drugs, punishment, sensation.

Über Autor(innen)

John Briggs, Mr John Briggs, Christopher Harrison, Angus McInnes, David Vincent