Download or read book Crime and Law in England 1750 1840 written by Peter King and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-12-07 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How was law made in England in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Through detailed studies of what the courts actually did, Peter King argues that parliament and the Westminster courts played a less important role in the process of law making than is usually assumed. Justice was often remade from the margins by magistrates, judges and others at the local level. His book also focuses on four specific themes - gender, youth, violent crime and the attack on customary rights. In doing so it highlights a variety of important changes - the relatively lenient treatment meted out to women by the late eighteenth century, the early development of the juvenile reformatory in England before 1825, i.e. before similar changes on the continent or in America, and the growing intolerance of the courts towards everyday violence. This study is invaluable reading to anyone interested in British political and legal history.

Download or read book Crime and Law in England 1750 1840 written by Peter King and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-12-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How was law made in England in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Through detailed studies of what the courts actually did, Peter King argues that parliament and the Westminster courts played a less important role in the process of law making than is usually assumed. Justice was often remade from the margins by magistrates, judges and others at the local level. His book also focuses on four specific themes - gender, youth, violent crime and the attack on customary rights. In doing so it highlights a variety of important changes - the relatively lenient treatment meted out to women by the late eighteenth century, the early development of the juvenile reformatory in England before 1825, i.e. before similar changes on the continent or in America, and the growing intolerance of the courts towards everyday violence. This study is invaluable reading to anyone interested in British political and legal history.

Download or read book Crime and Society in England 1750 1900 written by Clive Emsley and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1987 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Crime in Early Modern England 1550 1750 written by James A Sharpe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Still the only general survey of the topic available, this widely-used exploration of the incidence, causes and control of crime in Early Modern England throws a vivid light on the times. It uses court archives to capture vividly the everyday lives of people who would otherwise have left little mark on the historical record. This new edition - fully updated throughout - incorporates new thinking on many issues including gender and crime; changes in punishment; and literary perspectives on crime.

Download or read book Crime in England written by J S Cockburn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, first published in 1977, brings together eleven studies of crime and the administration of the criminal law in England during the early modern period. They represent a variety of approaches – legal, historical and sociological – to the study of historical crime. The initial essay in this study, which is written from a legal standpoint, is the first coordinated account of the structure of criminal law administration in this formative period. It is followed by investigations into the nature and incidence of crime, court appearance and punishment, separate studies of witchcraft, infanticide and poaching, and an account of conditions in eighteenth-century Newgate. This book will be of particular interest to students of criminology and history.

Download or read book Crime in Early Modern England 1550 1750 written by J. A. Sharpe and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1984 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book English Criminal Law Reform 1750 to 1830 written by Rolland L. Comstock and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the relatively few years between 1750 and about 1840, English criminal law underwent a great and significant change. This chain of development has best been stated in a work of fiction by the contemporary British novelist, Daphne du Maurier, with these lines from "My Cousin Rachel": "They used to hang men ... in the old days. Not any more, though." This writing begins in the period which might be termed the "dark age" of criminal law. During this time as many as three hundred and fifty persons a year traveled the road to Tyburn where a rope or a stake awaited them. The crimes of which these men, women and children had been convicted where great in number and ranged in seriousness from murdering the kind to being found in the company of Egyptians or gypsies. Although the movement for general criminal law reform begins first in Italy and France, it spreads very quickly to England. Such men as Sir Samuel Romilly, Jeremy Bentham, Henry Fielding and others are prime movers in the struggle for a more humane body of law and enforcement. Public opinion favorable to the reformers existed throughout the entire period. Henry Fielding's tract on the subject, published first in 1750, expressed the enlightened idea that the roots of crime are to be found in given social conditions; and that crime should thus be stopped at its "fountainhead". These words were well received by almost everyone in the country with the exception of the tradition-bound House of Lords. Proof that the public found the capital statutes to be too numerious and too harsh is to be found in the fact that juries would frequently find that stolen goods of great value had only nominal value, well below the statutory limits. After almost a hundred years of urging reform oon the part of individuals, committees, associations and the general public. Sir Robert Peel becomes head of the Home Office and a "wind that was the breath of the" new age begins to blow with great force against the bloody, but placid, "dark age". Although it is not correct to assume that capital statutes were done away with in the period under review here, it is correct to say that here the foundation was put in place on which such a structure might be built.

Download or read book Law Crime and English Society 1660 1830 written by Norma Landau and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-10-17 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how the law was made, defined, administered, and used in eighteenth-century England. A team of leading international historians explore the ways in which legal concerns and procedures came to permeate society and reflect on eighteenth-century concepts of corruption, oppression, and institutional efficiency. These themes are pursued throughout in a broad range of contributions which include studies of magistrates and courts; the forcible enlistment of soldiers and sailors; the eighteenth-century 'bloody code'; the making of law basic to nineteenth-century social reform; the populace's extension of law's arena to newspapers; theologians' use of assumptions basic to English law; Lord Chief Justice Mansfield's concept of the liberty intrinsic to England; and Blackstone's concept of the framework of English law. The result is an invaluable account of the legal bases of eighteenth-century society which is essential reading for historians at all levels.

Download or read book A History of English Criminal Law and Its Administration from 1750 written by Leon Radzinowicz and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charting the influence of public opinion which gradually led to criminal law reform.

Download or read book A History of the Criminal Law of England written by James Fitzjames Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Crime Justice and Discretion in England 1740 1820 written by Peter King and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000-09-28 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The criminal law has often been seen as central to the rule of the eighteenth-century landed élite in England. This book presents a detailed analysis of the judicial processs - of victims' reactions, pretrial practices, policing, magistrates hearings, trials, sentencing, pardoning and punishment - using property offenders as its main focus. The period 1740-1820 - the final era before the coming of the new police and the repeal of the capital code - emerges as the great age of discretionary justice, and the book explores the impact of the vast discretionary powers held by many social groups. It reassesses both the relationship between crime rates and the economic deprivation, and the many ways that vulnerability to prosecution varied widely across the lifecycle, in the light of the highly selective nature of pretrial negotiations. More centrally, by asking at every stage - who used the law, for what purposes, in whose interests and with what social effects - it opens up a number of new perspectives on the role of the law in eighteenth-century social relations. The law emerges as less the instrument of particular élite groups and more as an arena of struggle, of negotiation, and of compromise. Its rituals were less controllable and its merciful moments less manageable and less exclusively available to the gentry élite than has been previously suggested. Justice was vulnerable to power, but was also mobilised to constrain it. Despite the key functions that the propertied fulfilled, courtroom crowds, the counter-theatre of the condemned, and the decisions of the victims from a very wide range of backgrounds had a role to play, and the criteria on which decisions were based were shaped as much by the broad and more humane discourse which Fielding called the 'good mind' as by the instrumental needs of the propertied élites.

Download or read book A History of the Criminal Law of England written by James Fitzjames Stephen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-23 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1883, this three-volume account of English criminal law's development since 1200 remains a classic work of legal historical scholarship.

Download or read book A General View of the Criminal Law of England written by James Fitzjames Stephen and published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.. This book was released on 2021-08-04 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Probably the Best Modern History of a Particular Branch of English Law" "When it appeared in 1883 it was probably the best modern history of a particular branch of English law that had yet appeared in England. It won high praise from Pollock and Maitland. English criminal law, they said, will be fortunate in its historians, 'for it will fall into the hands of Matthew Hale and Fitzjames Stephen.' Though the more intensive study of the earlier history of our law has rendered some parts of it obsolete, it is still the best history of the later stages of the law. And it has another merit which it can never lose. The fact that its author was a practising lawyer and a judge, gives to his account of many parts of the law, and especially to his analysis of famous trials, the reality and vividness which comes of practical experience." -William S. Holdsworth, The Historians of Anglo-American Law 78. Sir James Fitzjames Stephen [1829-1894] was a distinguished and influential lawyer, judge, writer and law reformer. When he was the legal member of the Imperial Legislative Council in India, he drafted twelve acts and eight other enactments. Most of these, such as the Indian Evidence Act, are in force today. His 1878 Digest of Criminal Law, a codification, though never adopted in Great Britain, was the basis of the criminal codes of Canada, New Zealand and several colonies of Australia. Also a philosopher, he was a leading critic of John Stuart Mill. xii, 499 pp.

Download or read book A History of Crime in England written by Luke Owen Pike and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A History of English Criminal Law and Its Administration from 1750 The movement for reform 1750 1833 written by Leon Radzinowicz and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A History of English Criminal Law and Its Administration from 1750 Grappling for control written by Leon Radzinowicz and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A History of English Criminal Law and Its Administration from 1750 Cross currents in the movement for the reform of the police written by Leon Radzinowicz and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: