Research Catalog

Title

• Crime and punishment in England : an introductory history / John Briggs ... [et al.].

Publication

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1996.

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Additional Authors

• Briggs, John H. Y.
• Briggs, John, 1938-

Description

viii, 276 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Alternative Title

Crime & punishment in England

Subject

• Crime > England > History
• Criminal justice, Administration of > England > History
• Punishment > England > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-259) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. The medieval origins of the English criminal justice system -- pt. I. The early modern period. 2. Crime and the courts in early modern England. 3. Church courts and manor courts. 4. The machinery of law enforcement. 5. Imposing the law. 6. Punishment. 7. Socio-political crime -- pt. II. Crime, police and punishment in England after the Industrial Revolution, 1800-75. 8. The ordering of society. 9. The changing nature of crime in the nineteenth century. 10. The policing of society. 11. Patterns of punishment -- pt. III. The making of the modern criminal, 1875-1960. 12. Patterns of crime. 13. Bad behaviour. 14. Professional law. 15. Ordering punishment. 16. Epilogue.

ISBN

• 0312163304 (cloth)
• 0312163312 (paper)

LCCN

^^^96020019^

OCLC

34746000

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library