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  • Imprisonment in England and Wales

    A Concise History

    by Christopher Harding, Bill Hines, Richard Ireland, Philip Rawlings ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Prison and Prisoners
    Originally published in 1985, Imprisonment in England and Wales is an account of the changing functions and conditions of imprisonment in England and Wales from the Medieval period to the present day. It is designed both as a text for students and teachers of history, law and social science and as an introduction to the subject for more general readers and is one of the few attempts to provide an ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Drunks, Whores and Idle Apprentices

    Criminal Biographies of the Eighteenth Century

    by Philip Rawlings ...
    Criminal biographies enjoyed enormous popularity in the Eighteenth Century: today they offer us some fascinating perspectives on the period. Drunks, Whores and Idle Apprentices is the first book to reproduce a number of these biographies in full.Not only do these biographies make fascinating reading, they also raise the problem of how to read them as historical documents. The author argues that ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Policing: A short history

    by Philip Rawlings ...
    This book provides an overview of the history of policing in the UK. Its primary aim is to investigate the shifting nature of policing over time, and to provide a historical foundation to today's debates. Policing: a short history moves away from a focus on the origins of the 'new police', and concentrates rather on broader (but much neglected) patterns of policing. How was there a shift from ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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    by James A Sharpe ...
    Series series Themes In British Social History
    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 ... Read more

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  • Shades of the Prison House

    A History of Incarceration in the British Isles

    by Harry Potter ...
    Shades of the Prison House explores the history of imprisonment in the British Isles from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day. Over the centuries, prisons - from castle dungeons to "lockups" to "penitentiaries" to gaols -have changed radically in name, conditions, attributes and functions, as well as in their character and rationale. Prisons have served many aims: detention, deterrence, ... Read more

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  • Punishing the Criminal Corpse, 1700-1840

    Aggravated Forms of the Death Penalty in England

    by Peter King ...
    Series series Palgrave Historical Studies in the Criminal Corpse and its Afterlife
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence.This book analyses the different types of post-execution punishments and other aggravated execution practices, the reasons why they were advocated, and the decision, enshrined in the Murder Act of 1752, to make two post-execution punishments, dissection and gibbeting, an integral part of sentences for murder. It traces the origins of the Act, and ... Read more

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  • Law and Government in England during the Long Eighteenth Century

    From Consent to Command

    by D. Lemmings ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Over the long eighteenth century English governance was transformed by large adjustments to the legal instruments and processes of power. This book documents and analyzes these shifts and focuses upon the changing relations between legal authority and the English people. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • London Lives

    Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern City, 1690–1800

    by Tim Hitchcock, Robert Shoemaker ...
    London Lives is a fascinating new study which exposes, for the first time, the lesser-known experiences of eighteenth-century thieves, paupers, prostitutes and highwaymen. It charts the experiences of hundreds of thousands of Londoners who found themselves submerged in poverty or prosecuted for crime, and surveys their responses to illustrate the extent to which plebeian Londoners influenced the ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Crime, Policing and Punishment in England, 1660-1914

    by Dr Drew D. Gray ...
    Crime, Policing and Punishment in England, 1660-1914 offers an overview of the changing nature of crime and its punishment from the Restoration to World War 1. It charts how prosecution and punishment have changed from the early modern to the modern period and reflects on how the changing nature of English society has affected these processes. By combining extensive primary material alongside a ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Crime and Society in England, 1750–1900

    by Clive Emsley ...
    Series series Themes In British Social History
    Ranging from the middle of the eighteenth through to the end of the nineteenth century, Crime and Society in England, 1750–1900 explores the developments in policing, the courts and the penal system as England became increasingly industrialised and urbanised. Through a consideration of the difficulty of defining crime, the book presents criminal behaviour as being intrinsically tied to historical ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Crime in England 1688-1815

    by David Cox ...
    Series series History of Crime in the UK and Ireland
    Crime in England 1688-1815 covers the ‘long’ eighteenth century, a period which saw huge and far-reaching changes in criminal justice history. These changes included the introduction of transportation overseas as an alternative to the death penalty, the growth of the magistracy, the birth of professional policing, increasingly harsh sentencing of those who offended against property-owners and the ... Read more

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  • Crime And Punishment In England

    An Introductory History

    by John Briggs, Christopher Harrison, Angus McInnes, David Vincent ...
    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. ... Read more

    $63.99 USD