John Briggs, Christopher Harrison

Crime And Punishment In England

An Introductory History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This survey of crime in ENgland from the medieval period to the present day synthesizes case-study and local-level material and standardizes the debates and issues for the student reader.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781857281545
• ISBN-10: 1857281543
• Artikelnr.: 22279722

Autorenporträt

John Briggs, Mr John Briggs, Christopher Harrison, Angus McInnes, David Vincent

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 The medieval inheritance: defining crime
the medieval system in its prime. Part 2 The pre-industrial response to crime: Tudor crime
imposing the law
riots and political crime
punishments
manor courts. Part 3 Crime in industrial England: the control of society
threats to public order
crimes against property and the person
statutory creation of new crimes
law reform - policing, sentencing and punishing. Part 4 The making of the modern criminal: poverty, prosperity and the criminal
crime - and technology, sex, subversion, insanity, drink and drugs, punishment, sensation.