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Crime and law in England, 1750-1840 : remaking justice from the margins /
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 re...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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| Colección: | Past and present publications.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 will prove invaluable reading to anyone interested in British political and legal history. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 348 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511256876 9780511256875 9780511257377 0511257376 9780511495878 0511495870 9786610709960 6610709963 1107158559 9781107158559 1280709960 9781280709968 9780511255779 0511255772 0511319509 9780511319501 0511256345 9780511256349 0521129540 9780521129541 |