Crime And Punishment In England

An Introductory History

John Briggs, Christopher Harrison, Angus McInnes, David Vincent (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

284 Seiten

1996
Routledge (Verlag)
9781857281545 (ISBN)

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An introductory text on the social history of crime, deviancy and criminal behaviour from 1100 to the present day.

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.

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

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.6.1996
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
ISBN-13	9781857281545 / 9781857281545
Zustand	Neuware