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Histories of crime : Britain 1600-2000 / edited by Anne-Marie Kilday and David Nash.

Title
Histories of crime : Britain 1600-2000 / edited by Anne-Marie Kilday and David Nash.
Publication
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

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Additional Authors
  • Kilday, Anne-Marie.
  • Nash, David (David S.)
Description
x, 218 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Crime > Great Britain > History
  • Criminal justice, Administration of > Great Britain > History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction / David Nash and Anne-Marie Kilday -- Moral crimes and the law in Britain since 1700 / David Nash -- Cruelty and adultery : offences against the institution of marriage / Joanne Bailey -- Desperate measures or cruel intentions? Infanticide in Britain since 1600 / Anne-Marie Kilday -- 'Most intimate violations' : contextualising the crime of rape / Kim Stevenson -- Murder and fatality : the changing face of homicide / Shani D'Cruze -- Criminality, deviance and the underworld since 1750 / Heather Shore -- Fraud and white-collar crime : 1850 to the present / Sarah Wilson -- Policing the populace : the road to professionalisation / Chris A. Williams -- Execution as punishment in England : 1750-2000 / Judith Rowbotham.
ISBN
  • 9780230224698 (hbk.)
  • 0230224695 (hbk.)
  • 0230224709 (pbk.)
  • 9780230224704 (pbk.)
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Harvard Library