Crime, justice, and discretion in England, 1740-1820 /
The criminal law has often been as central to the rule of the eighteenth-century landed élite. Within detailed studies of every stage of the criminal process this volume explores key issues as who used the law, for what purposes, and with what effects. It then challenges the view that the law was p...
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Oxford [UK] ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2000
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Victims, Informal Negotiations, and Prosecution Options
- 3. Resources Available to Victims: Public Funding, Prosecution Associations, Print, and Policing
- 4. Magistrates and Summary Courts
- 5. Patterns of Crime and Patterns of Deprivation
- 6. The Offenders: Property Crime and Life-Cycle Change
- 7. Trials, Verdicts, and Courtroom Interactions
- 8. Sentencing Policy and the Impact of Gender and Age
- 9. Pardoning Policies: The Good Mind and the Bad
- 10. Rituals of Punishment
- 11. Conclusion: Law and Social Relations, 1740-1820