Policing and punishment in London, 1660-1750 : urban crime and the limits of terror /
Examines the considerable changes that took place in the criminal justice system in the city of London in the century after the Restoration, well before the inauguration of the so-called "age of reform." The policing institutions of the city were transformed in response to the problems cre...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2001.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Examines the considerable changes that took place in the criminal justice system in the city of London in the century after the Restoration, well before the inauguration of the so-called "age of reform." The policing institutions of the city were transformed in response to the problems created by the rapid expansion of the metropolis during the early modern period, and as a consequence of the emergence of a polite urban culture. The City authorities were instrumental in the establishment of new forms of punishment--particularly transportation to the American colonies and confinement at hard labor--that for the first time made secondary sanctions available to the English courts for convicted felons and diminished the reliance on the terror created by capital punishment |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xix, 491 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps, portraits |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 1423785983 9781423785989 1280445823 9781280445828 0191543322 9780191543326 |