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Police Power in the Italian Communes, 1228-1326
Police are generally thought of as an invention of the modern state, yet policing in medieval Italy had much in common with modern law enforcement. Foreign soldiers - hired as such to ensure their impartiality in enforcing the statutes - patrolled the streets daily, patting down residents for prohib...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
2019.
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| Colección: | Premodern Crime and Punishment Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; A Note on Usage; Abbreviations; Introduction; Police as a Mode of Governance; Police and Impersonal Rules; The Plan of the Book; 1. Police Power in the Italian Communes; The Podestà's Household; Police Patrols and Inspections; The Legal Process: From Detention to Trial; A Comparison of Selected Data; Conclusion: Policing and Hegemonic Justice; 2. Police Discretion and Personal Autonomy; Social Identity; Political Status; Factual Matters; Legal Presumptions; Police Jurisdiction; Mitigating Factors; Conclusion: The Paradox of Impersonality
- 3. The Logic of Third-Party Policing"To ... Pursue and Capture Outlawed Criminals"; "To ... Search for Men Bearing Prohibited Arms"; "Trustworthy Foreign Men"; "The Good State of the Commune"; Conclusion: A Preventive Police; 4. External Threats: Policing Out-Groups and Criminality; Judicial Violence; The Public Interest; Outlaws, Infames, and Men of Ill Repute; Police Patrols as Dragnet; The Role of Fama; Conclusion: A Persecuting Society?; 5. Internal Threats: Policing Violence and Enmity; Enmity and Instability; Policing Feud; Toward a Monopoly on Violence; Preventing Enmity
- Conclusion: Legislating in the Shadow of Violence6. The Social Impact of Third-Party Policing; Mandatory Rules; Legal Literacy; Fear of the Familia; Violent Self-Help; Police-Community Relations; Public Corruption; Legal Privilege; Conclusion: A Legacy of Government Coercion; Conclusion; About the author; Index; List of Figures; Table 1: Bologna: Persons Denounced per Semester; Table 2: Bologna: Curfew Case Outcomes by Percentage; Table 3: Bologna: Arms-bearing Case Outcomes by Percentage; Table 4: Bologna: Gambling Case Outcomes by Percentage
- Table 5: Bologna: Total Amount of Penalties in LireTable 6: Bologna: Case Type by Percentage of Total Cases; Table 7: Bologna: Convictions, January-March 1256; Table 8: Bologna: Crowns and Arms Fragment, April-October 1264; Table 9: Perugia: Inventiones, January-December 1279; Table 10: Perugia: Inventiones, January-August 1283; Table 11: Perugia: Persons Convicted; Table 12: Perugia: Persons Convicted by Percentage of Total Convictions; Table 13: Siena: Convictions, 1305II; Table 14: Siena: Convictions, 1306I; Table 15: Siena: Convictions, 1306II
- Table 16: Siena: Total Convictions, 1305II-1306IITable 17: Orvieto: Convictions, November 1294-November 1295; Image 1: The record of Carlo Baciacomari's trial in the Crowns and Arms series. Archivio di Stato di Bologna.; Image 2: Drawings of prohibited weapons on the cover of a Crowns and Arms register. Archivio di Stato di Bologna.