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A history of criminal justice in England and Wales /

"An ideal introduction to the rich history of criminal justice charting all its main developments from the dooms of Anglo-Saxon times to the rise of the Common Law, struggles for political, legislative and judicial ascendency and the formation of the innovative Criminal Justice System of today....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hostettler, John
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hook, Hampshire : Portland, Or. : Waterside Press ; North American distributor, International Specialised Book Services, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Origins of criminal justice in Anglo-Saxon England
  • Saxon dooms : our early laws
  • Norman influence and the Angevin legacy
  • Criminal law in medieval and early modern England
  • Common law in danger
  • Commonwealth
  • Whig supremacy and adversary trial
  • Jury in the eighteenth century
  • Punishment and prisons
  • Nineteenth-century crime and policing
  • Victorian images
  • Century of criminal law reform
  • Criminal incapacity
  • Revolution in procedure
  • Early twentieth century
  • Improvement after World War II
  • Twenty-first century regression?
  • Placing criminal justice in perspective.