Engines of Truth : Producing Veracity in the Victorian Courtroom / / Wendie Ellen Schneider

• Autore: Schneider Wendie Ellen
• Pubblicazione: New Haven, : Yale University Press, 2016; New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations, figures, tables
• Disciplina: 347.075
• Soggetto topico: Procedure (Law) - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Cross-examination - Great Britain - History - 19th century
• Soggetto geografico: Great Britain
• Soggetto genere / forma: History
• Soggetto non controllato: history; Adultery; Barrister; Cross-examination; Defendant; Divorce; Divorce Court; Perjury; Proctor; Victorian era
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Rise and Fall of Perjury Prosecutions -- 2. The Gentlemanly Art of Cross-examination -- 3. Perjury and Prevarication in British India -- 4. The Queen's Proctor: An Inquisitorial Experiment -- 5. Adultery, Sex Offenses, and the Criminal Evidence Act of 1898 -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: During the Victorian era, new laws allowed more witnesses to testify in court cases. At the same time, an emerging cultural emphasis on truth-telling drove the development of new ways of inhibiting perjury. Strikingly original and drawing on a broad array of archival research, Wendie Schneider's examination of the Victorian courtroom charts this period of experimentation and how its innovations shaped contemporary trial procedure. Blending legal, social, and colonial history, she shines new light on cross-examination, the most enduring product of this time and the "greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth."
• Titolo autorizzato: Engines of Truth
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910136398303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II