Peter King

Crime and Law in England, 1750 1840

Remaking Justice from the Margins

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 597g
• ISBN-13: 9780521129541
• ISBN-10: 0521129540
• Artikelnr.: 28174591

Autorenporträt

Born on October 25, 1940 in Glasgow Scotland he came to Canada in 1959 and served in the Canadian Navy, the Canadian Federal Public Service, as a Consultant with First Nations, and was appointed a University Professor at the University of Hearst (Ontario) and Beijing University of Technology (Beijing, China). Lives in Ottawa, Ontario

Inhaltsangabe

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 delinquency 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.