Crime and the law : the social history of crime in Western Europe since 1500 / edited by V.A.C. Gatrell, Bruce Lenman, and Geoffrey Parker.

Date:
1980
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Publication/Creation

London : Europa Publications, 1980.

Physical description

xii, 381 pages ; 25 cm.

Contents

The state, the community, and the criminal law in early modern Europe / Bruce Lenman and Geoffrey Parker -- Crimen exceptum / Christina Larner -- Crime and punishment in early modern Spain / Michael Weisser -- Enforcing the law in the seventeenth-century English village / J.A. Sharpe -- The courts and the Scottish legal system, 1600-1747 / Stephen J. Davies -- "A new engine of power and authority" / David Philips -- The London garotting panic of 1862 / Jennifer Davis -- Crime and the security of the state / Robert Tombs -- The decline of theft and violence in Victorian and Edwardian England / V.A.C. Gatrell.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographic references and index

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    History of Medicine
    JQP.AA5-9
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  • 0905118545 :