Sascha Auerbach

Armed with Sword and Scales (eBook, ePUB)

Law, Culture, and Local Courtrooms in London, 1860-1913

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Produktbeschreibung

In the mid-eighteenth century, author and magistrate Henry Fielding adjudicated cases of theft, assault, and public disorder from his London home on Bow Street. By the middle of the nineteenth century, Fielding's modest 'police office' had expanded to become the most prolific court system in Britain and the cornerstone of criminal and civil justice in the metropolis. Sascha Auerbach examines the fascinating history of this institution through the lens of 'courtroom culture' - the combination of formal statute and informal custom that guided everyday practice in the London Police Courts. He offers a new model for understanding the relationship between law, culture, and society in modern Britain and illuminates how the local courtroom became a crucial part of everyday life and thoroughly entangled with popular representations of justice and morality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108871662
• Artikelnr.: 62746904

Autorenporträt

Sascha Auerbach is a Lecturer in Modern British and Colonial History at the University of Nottingham. A former Fulbright Scholar, he is the author of Race, Law and 'The Chinese Puzzle' in Imperial Britain (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Courtroom Culture; 1. 'Many-Coloured Scenes of Life': The
Police Courts in Metropolitan Culture and Society, 1758-1860; 2. 'A Ruffian
Rightly Punished': Morality and Local Courtrooms in Practice and Portrayal,
1860-1880; 3. 'An Evil Quarter of an Hour About the Precincts': Urban
Reform and Municipal Authority in the Courtroom, 1870-1902; 4. 'Two
Shillings' Worth of Revenge in the Form of a Summons': The Integration of
Courtrooms and Communities in London, 1882-1902; 5. A Poor Woman's Court of
Justice, 1882-1910; 6. 'The Very Centre of Observation and Information':
Constables, Magistrates, and Changing Patterns of Prosecution and
Punishment, 1880-1913; Conclusion: The Historical and Cultural Legacies of
the London Magistrates Courts.