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Author Briggs, John aut

Title Crime and Punishment in England, 1100-1990 : an Introductory History
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (271 pages)
Contents Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 The medieval origins of the English criminal justice system; Part I: The early modern period; 2 Crime and the courts in early modern England; 3 Church courts and manor courts; 4 The machinery of law enforcement; 5 Imposing the law; 6 Punishment; 7 Socio-political crime; Part II: Crime, police and punishment in England after the Industrial Revolution, 1800-75; 8 The ordering of society; 9 The changing nature of crime in the nineteenth century; 10 The policing of society; 11 Patterns of punishment
Part III: The making of the modern criminal, 1875-196012 Patterns of crime; 13 Bad behaviour; 14 Professional law; 15 Ordering punishment; 16 Epilogue; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
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SUBJECT Great Britain -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056719
Great Britain. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79023147
Subject Great Britain.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
Author Harrison, Christopher aut
McInnes, Angus aut
Vincent, David aut
ISBN 9781137081780
1137081783