Robert B. Shoemaker

Prosecution and Punishment

Petty Crime and the Law in London and Rural Middlesex, C.1660 1725

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers an assessment of the social significance of the law in pre-industrial England.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9780521068765
• ISBN-10: 0521068762
• Artikelnr.: 23833845

Autorenporträt

Robert Shoemaker is Professor of Eighteenth-Century British History at the University of Sheffield. Holder of a Ph.D. from Stanford University, he is an expert on London history, gender, and crime and criminal justice in the 'long' eighteenth century.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
List of tables
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations and conventions
Part I. Background: 1. Introduction
2. Options for prosecution
3. Patterns of prosecutions
Part II. Procedures For Prosecution: 4. Informal mediation by justices of the peace
5. Binding over by recognizance
6. Indictment at quarter sessions
7. Houses of correction
Part III. The Contextx of Misdemeanor Prosecutions: 8. The participants: plaintiffs, defendants, and justices of the peace
9. The reformation of manners campaign
10. Geographical contexts
11. Conclusion
Appendices
Bibliography
Index.