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1 online resource (x, 376 pages) |
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Part 1. Magistrates and the sessions' courts : -- 1. Charles Cottu, On the Administration of Criminal Justice in England, 1822, excerpts -- 2. Reginald W. Jeffery, Dyott's Diary 1781-1845, 1907, excerpts -- 3. William Hone, The Clerical Magistrate, 1819 -- 4. John Paget, "The London Police Courts," 1875 -- Part 2. Judges and the assize courts : -- 5. Charles Cottu, On the Administration of Criminal Justice in England, 1822, excerpts -- 6. Murder of Bow Street patrol man, 8 May 1799 -- Part 3. Prerogative of mercy : -- 7. Edmund Burke, "Some Thoughts on the Approaching Executions," 1780 -- 8. Mr. Baron Perryn, mercy, death penalty, 1787 -- 9. Sir William Ashurst, mercy, death penalty, 1787 -- 10. Sir James Eyre, mercy, death penalty, 1787 -- 11. Letters written by circuit judges, 1819: death penalty, mercy -- 12. Letters written by circuit judges, 1819: imprisonment mercy cases -- 13. Baron Hotham to Lord Auckland, 1800 -- 14. The Autobiography of Francis Place (1771-1854), 1972, excerpts -- 15. Highway robbery, 8 May 1799, case of Matthew Stinson -- 16. Duke of Wellington and Charles Greville on recorder's reports; prerogative of mercy, 1826 and 1829 -- 17. Lord Ellenborough on recorder's reports, 1828 -- 18. Memorandum as to the exercise of the Royal Prerogative of Pardon, 1874 -- 19. Sir William Harcourt on infanticide cases, 1884 -- 20. The Lipski case and the prerogative of mercy, 1887 -- Part 4. The doctrine of maximum severity : -- 21. Martin Madan, Appendix to "Thoughts on Executive Justice," 1785, excerpts -- 22. William Paley's "Of Crimes and Punishments," 1785 -- 23. Sir Samuel Romilly, Observations on the Criminal Law of England as it Relates to Capital Punishments, 1810, excerpts -- Part 5. Public punishments : -- 24. Public whipping in London, 1786 -- 25. Pillory, 1810 -- 26. The Journal of Samuel Curwen Loyalist, 1781, excerpt -- 27. Scene-of-crime execution, 1830 -- 28. Nottingham execution, 1844, Home Secretary on Public Executions -- 29. Charles Dickens's call for an end to public executions, 1849 -- 30. The Times defends public executions, 1849 -- 31. John Ashton, "Life of the Mannings" -- 32. Henry Mayhew, "On Capital Punishments," 1856, excerpts -- Part 6. Pruning the fatal tree : -- 33. Lord Byron on the Frame Work Bill, 1812 -- 34. Lord Byron, "An Ode to the Framers of the Frame Bill," 1812 -- 35. Thomas Fowell Buxton on capital punishment in felonies, 1819 -- 36. Sir James Mackintosh and Mr. Secretary Peel: two images of justice, 1823 -- 37. Joseph John Gurney's opposition to capital punishment -- Part 7. Resisting abolition : -- 38. James Fitzjames Stephen, "Capital Punishments," 1864, excerpt -- Part 8. Sentencing : -- 39. Theft: grand larceny, 1820, Joseph Howell; pickpocketing, 1820, William Harwood -- 40. Liverpool October sessions, Calendar of Prisoners, 1849 -- 41. "The Disproportion between the Punishments Adjudged to Crimes of Equal Magnitude," The Times, 24 Aug. 1846 -- 42. Lord Penzance on sentencing inequality, 1870 -- 43. Mr. Sergeant Cox on cumulative sentencing, 1874 -- 44. Sir Edmund Du Cane and Sir William Harcourt on the reduction of sentence lengths, 1884 -- 45. James Fitzjames Stephen, "Variations in the Punishment of Crime," 1885 -- 46. C.H. Hopwood, "Crime and Punishment," 1893 -- 47. The Judges' Memorandum on normal punishments, 1901 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Crime -- 19th century
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Punishment -- 19th century
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Crime.
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Punishment.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429995668 |
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0429995660 |
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