Crime in England : 1550-1800
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0416839703
ISBN 13
9780416839708
Category
United Kingdom
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Publication Year
1977
Publisher
Pages
xiv, 364 pages
Subject
UK Crime and Punishment
Abstract
"This volume brings together eleven studies of crime and the administration of the criminal law in England during the early modern period. They present a variety a approaches- legal, historical and sociological - to the study of historical crime, an area which until now has been little studied..."- Cover
Description
Contents:
Introduction: crime and the historian / G.R. Elton -- Criminal courts and procedure at common law 1550-1800 / J.H. Baker -- The nature and incidence of crime in England 1559-1625 / J.S. Cockburn -- Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart Essex / A.D.J. MacFarlane -- Crime and delinquency in an Essex parish 1600-1640 / J.A. Sharpe -- Communities and courts: law and disorder in early-seventeenth-century Wiltshire / M.J. Ingram -- Quarter sessions appearances and their background: a seventeenth-century regional study / T.C. Curtis -- Crime and the courts in Surrey 1736-1753 / J.M. Beattie -- Infanticide in the eighteenth century / R.W. Malcolmson -- The game laws in Wiltshire 1750-1800 / P.B. Munsche -- Finding solace in eighteenth-century Newgate / W.J. Sheehan -- The Ordinary of Newgate and his Account / P. Linebaugh.
Introduction: crime and the historian / G.R. Elton -- Criminal courts and procedure at common law 1550-1800 / J.H. Baker -- The nature and incidence of crime in England 1559-1625 / J.S. Cockburn -- Witchcraft in Tudor and Stuart Essex / A.D.J. MacFarlane -- Crime and delinquency in an Essex parish 1600-1640 / J.A. Sharpe -- Communities and courts: law and disorder in early-seventeenth-century Wiltshire / M.J. Ingram -- Quarter sessions appearances and their background: a seventeenth-century regional study / T.C. Curtis -- Crime and the courts in Surrey 1736-1753 / J.M. Beattie -- Infanticide in the eighteenth century / R.W. Malcolmson -- The game laws in Wiltshire 1750-1800 / P.B. Munsche -- Finding solace in eighteenth-century Newgate / W.J. Sheehan -- The Ordinary of Newgate and his Account / P. Linebaugh.
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