Author: James Fitzjames StephenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal law
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
A History of the Criminal Law of England
Author: James Fitzjames StephenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal law
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
A General View of the Criminal Law of England
Author: James Fitzjames StephenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal law
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Crime and Law in England, 1750–1840
Author: Peter KingPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781139459495
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
How was law made in England in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Through detailed studies of what the courts actually did, Peter King argues that parliament and the Westminster courts played a less important role in the process of law making than is usually assumed. Justice was often remade from the margins by magistrates, judges and others at the local level. His book also focuses on four specific themes - gender, youth, violent crime and the attack on customary rights. In doing so it highlights a variety of important changes - the relatively lenient treatment meted out to women by the late eighteenth century, the early development of the juvenile reformatory in England before 1825, i.e. before similar changes on the continent or in America, and the growing intolerance of the courts towards everyday violence. This study is invaluable reading to anyone interested in British political and legal history.
A History of the Criminal Law of England
Author: James Fitzjames StephenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal law
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
A History of the Criminal Law of England
Author: James Fitzjames StephenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108060714
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 601
Book Description
Published in 1883, this three-volume account of English criminal law's development since 1200 remains a classic work of legal historical scholarship.
A History of English Criminal Law and Its Administration from 1750
Author: Leon RadzinowiczPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal law
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
Charting the influence of public opinion which gradually led to criminal law reform.
A History of the Criminal Law of England
Author: StephenThe History of the Common Law of England
Author: Matthew HalePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil law
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
The Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales
Author: Paul RockPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429892217
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Volume I of The Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales frames what was known about crime and criminal justice in the 1960s, before describing the liberalising legislation of the decade. Commissioned by the Cabinet Office and using interviews, British Government records, and papers housed in private, and institutional collections, this is the first of a collaboratively written series of official histories that analyse the evolution of criminal justice between 1959 and 1997. It opens with an account of the inception of the series, before describing what was known about crime and criminal justice at the time. It then outlines the genesis of three key criminal justice Acts that not only redefined the relations between the State and citizen, but also shaped what some believed to be the spirit of the age: the abolition of capital punishment, and the reform of the laws on abortion, and homosexuality. The Acts were taken to be so contentious morally and politically that Governments of different stripes were hesitant about promoting them formally. The onus was instead passed to backbenchers, who were supported by interlocking groups of reformers, with a pooled knowledge about how to effectively organise a rhetoric that drew on the language of utilitarianism, and the clarity and authority of a Church of England. This came to play an increasingly consequential and largely unacknowledged part in resolving what were often confusing moral questions. This book will be of much interest to students of criminology and British history, politics and law.
Crime in England 1880-1945
Author: Barry GodfreyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113460937X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
This book is an ambitious attempt to map the main changes in the criminal justice system in the Victorian period through to the twentieth century. Chapters include an examination of the growth and experience of imprisonment, policing, and probation services; the recording of crime in official statistics and in public memory; and the possibilities of research created by new electronic and on-line sources; an exploration of time, space and place, on crime, and the growth internationalisation and science-led approach of crime control methods in this period. Unusually, the book presents these issues in a way which illustrates the sources of data that informs modern crime history and discusses how criminologists and historians produce theories of crime history. Consequently, there are a series of interesting and lively debates of a thematic nature which will engage historians, criminologists, and research methods specialists, as well as the undergraduates and school students that, like the author, are fascinated by crime history.