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Record Nr.

UNINA9910796459303321

Autore

Briggs John

Titolo

Crime and Punishment in England [[electronic resource] ] : An Introductory History / / by John Briggs, Christopher Harrison, Angus McInnes, David Vincent

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 1996

ISBN

1-137-08178-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VIII, 276 p.)

Disciplina

941

Soggetti

Great Britain-History

History of Britain and Ireland

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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, 1875-1960 -- 12 Patterns of crime -- 13 Bad behaviour -- 14 Professional law -- 15 Ordering punishment -- 16 Epilogue -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.