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Crime and Law in England, 1750-1840: Remaking Justice from the Margins


ISBN13: 9780521781992
ISBN: 052178199X
Published: December 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
Price: £91.00
Paperback edition , ISBN13 9780521129541



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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 will prove invaluable reading to anyone interested in British political and legal history.

  • Important contribution to the field of criminal justice, historical criminology and legal history
  • Based on detailed examination of court records
  • Written by one of the leading historians of crime and criminal justice

Subjects:
Legal History
Contents:
Introduction
1. Shaping and remaking justice from the margins: the courts, the law and patterns of lawbreaking 1750-1840
Part I. Juveniles:
2.The rise of juvenile selinquency in England 1780-1840: changing patterns of perception and prosecution
3. The punishment of juvenile offenders in the English Courts 1780-1830: changing attitudes and policies
4. The making of the reformatory: the development of informal reformatory sentences for juvenile offenders 1780-1830
Part II. Gender:
5. Female offenders, work and lifecycle change in late eighteenth-century London
6. Gender, crime and justice in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century England
7. Gender and recorded crime. The impact of female offenders in England and Wales 1750-1850
Part III. Non-lethal violence:
8. Punishing assault: the transformation of attitudes in the English courts
9. Changing attitudes to violence in the Cornish courts 1730-1830
Part IV. The Attack on Customary Rights:
10. Customary right and women's earnings: the importance of gleaning to the rural labouring poor 1750-1850
11. Legal change, customary right and social conflict in late eighteenth-century England: the origins of the great gleaning case of 1788
12. Gleaners, farmers and the failure of legal sanctions in England 1750-1850.