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9780511495878
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Past and present publications
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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 is invaluable reading to anyone interested in British political and legal history
Inhalt:
pt. 1. Juveniles. The rise of juvenile delinquency in England 1780-1840 : Changing patterns of perception and prosecution -- The punishment of juvenile offenders in the English Courts 1780-1830 : Changing attitudes and policies -- The making of the reformatory : The development of informal reformatory sentences for juvenile offenders 1780-1830 -- pt. 2. Gender. Gender, crime and justice in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century England -- Gender and recorded crime. The long term impact of female offenders on prosecution rates across England and Wales 1750-1850 -- pt. 3. Non-lethal violence. Punishing assault : The transformation of attitudes in the English courts -- Changing attitudes to violence in the Cornish courts 1730-1830 -- pt. 4. The attack on customary rights. Legal change, customary right and social conflict in late eighteenth-century England : The origins of the Great Gleaning case of 1788 -- Gleaners, farmers and the failure of legal sanctions in England 1750-1850
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
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ISBN 9780521781992
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ISBN 9780521129541
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Print version ISBN 9780521781992
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Rechtswissenschaft
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511495878
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