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Engines of Truth : Producing Veracity in the Victorian Courtroom /
During the Victorian era, new laws allowed more witnesses to testify in court cases. At the same time, an emerging cultural emphasis on truth-telling drove the development of new ways of inhibiting perjury. Strikingly original and drawing on a broad array of archival research, Wendie Schneider'...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven, CT :
Yale University Press,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part one. From Crime to Cross-examination
- 1. The Rise and Fall of Perjury Prosecutions
- 2. The Gentlemanly Art of Cross-examination
- Part two. Experimentation Abroad and at Home
- 3. Perjury and Prevarication in British India
- 4. The Queen's Proctor: An Inquisitorial Experiment
- 5. Adultery, Sex Offenses, and the Criminal Evidence Act of 1898
- Notes
- Index