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In pursuit of memory : the fight against Alzheimer's / Joseph Jebelli.
Jebelli, JosephDate: 2017- Books
Report of the Committee appointed to consider what changes, if any, are desirable in the existing law, practice and procedure relating to criminal trials in which the plea of insanity as a defence is raised, and whether any and, if so, what changes should be made in the existing law and practice in respect of cases falling within the provisions of section 2 (4) of the Criminal Lunatics Act, 1884.
Great Britain. Committee on Insanity and Crime.Date: 1923- Books
Report on the psychological treatment of crime / by W. Norwood East and W. H. de B. Hubert.
East, W. Norwood (William Norwood), Sir, 1872-1953.Date: 1939- Books
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The dying speeches and behaviour of the several state prisoners that have been executed the last 300 years. With their several characters from the best historians, as Cambden, Spotswood, Clarendon, Sprat, Burnet, &c. And A Table shewing how the respective Sentences were Executed, and which of them were Mitigated, or Pardon'd. Being a proper supplement to the state-tryals.
Date: MDCCXX. [1720]- Books
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A genuine account of the life of John Rann, alias Sixteen-String Jack: who was executed November 30th. 1774, for a robbery on the highway, near Brentford; Containing His Adventures and Enterprises, his numerous Escapes from Justice, and his Amours with several Ladies. Among which is introduced some curious anecdotes of Miss Smith and Miss Roche, His Favorite Dulcineas to which is added some strictures on the penal laws, an a particular account of Lane and Trotman, executed at the same Time for the barbarous robbery of Mr. Floyd, in a Coach, near Chelsea.
Date: [1774?]- Books
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A genuine account of the life of John Rann, alias Sixteen-string Jack: who was executed November 30th. 1774, for a robbery on the highway, near Brentford; ... some curious anecdotes of Miss Smith and Miss Roche, ... to which is added some strictures on the penal laws, an a particular account of Lane and Trotman, now under sentence of death for the ... robbery of Mr. Floyd, ... near Chelsea.
Date: [1774?]- Books
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Select trials for murder, robbery, burglary, rapes, sodomy, coining, Forgery, Pyracy, and other offences and misdemeanours, at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bailey, to which are added genuine accounts of the lives, exploits, Behaviour, Confessions, and Dying-Speeches, of the most notorious convicts, from the year 1741 to the present year, 1764, inclusive; which completes the trials from the year 1720. In Four Volumes. ...
Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]- Books
A history of forensic science : British beginnings in the twentieth century / Alison Adam.
Adam, AlisonDate: 2016- Books
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The dying speeches and behaviour of the several state prisoners that have been executed the last 300 years. With their several characters from the best historians, as Cambden, Spotswood, Clarendon, Sprat, Burnet, &c. and A Table shewing how the respective Sentences were Executed, and which of them were Mitigated, or Pardon'd. Being a proper supplement to the state-tryals.
Date: MDCCXXX. [1730]- Books
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Old Bailey experience. Criminal jurisprudence and the actual working of our penal code of laws. Also, an essay on prison discipline, to which is added a history of the crimes committed by offenders in the present day / By the author of 'The schoolmaster's experience in Newgate' [i.e. T. Wontner].
Wontner, Thomas.Date: 1833- Books
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Select trials, for murders, robberies, rapes, sodomy, coining, frauds, and other offences. At the Sessions-House in the Old-Bailey. To which are Added, Genuine Accounts of the Lives, Behaviour, Confessions, and Dying-Speeches, of the most eminent Convicts.
Date: M.DCC.XLII. [1742]- Books
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Select trials for murders, robberies, rapes, sodomy, coining, Frauds, And other Offences: at the Sessions-House in the Old-Bailey. To which are added, genuine accounts of the lives, behaviour, confessions and dying-speeches of the most eminent convicts. ... . From the Year 1720, to 1724, inclusive.
Date: M.DCC.XXXIV. [1734]-35- Books
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The genuine and authentick trial of Mr. Bartholomew Greenwood, charg'd with robbing Mr. Roger Wheatly near Camberwell. Which was try'd before the Right Honourable Mr. Baron Carter, at the assizes for the county of Surry, held at Kingston upon Thames: on Saturday Aug.2. 1740.
Greenwood, Bartholomew.Date: 1740- Books
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An accurate statement, of the trial of James Price and Thomas Brown, before the Hon. Francis Burton, Esq. at the assizes holden for the county palatine of Chester, the 6th day of April, 1796. Charged on Oath, with a strong Suspicion of having on Tuesday the 19th of January last past, between the Hours of Eight and Nine in the Afternoon of the same Day, on the King's Highway, in the Parish of Thorton-in-The-Moors, in the County of Chester, feloniously assaulted Peter Yoxall, who was carrying on Horseback, his Majesty's Mail, from Warrington in the County of Lancaster, to the City of Chester, and taking from his Person; the said Mail bag, with the letters and other articles contained therein. Entered at Stationers-Hall.
Price, James, active 1796.Date: 1796- Books
Crime and its treatment / John Barron Mays.
Mays, John Barron.Date: 1975- Books
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Psychology and crime / by Thomas Holmes.
Holmes, Thomas, 1846-1918.Date: 1912- Books
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The want of a religious education, and keeping bad company, destructive to virtuous principles. A sermon preach'd the 20th of March, at Hertford, the Sunday before the execution of the two convicts, viz. Thomas Bibby, ... and Thomas Flack, ... To which is added, their life and confession; ... By William Tutty, ...
Tutty, William, active 1741.Date: 1747- Books
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The tyburn chronicle: or, villainy display'd in all its branches. Containing an authentic account of the lives, adventures, tryals, executions, and last dying speeches of the most notorious male factors. Of all Denominations, who have suffered for Bigamy, Forgeries, Highway-Robberies, House-Breaking, Murders, Perjury, Piracy, Rapes, Riots, Sodomy, Starving, Treason, And other the most enormous Crimes. The Whole being the most faithful Narrative ever yet Published of the various Executions, and other Punishments, In England, Scotland, and Ireland, From the year 1700, to the present time.
Date: [1768]- Books
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An enquiry into the causes of the frequent executions at Tyburn: and A Proposal for some Regulations concerning Felons in Prison, and the good Effects to be Expected from them. To which is Added, A Discourse on Transportation, and a Method to render that Punishment more Effectual. By B. Mandeville, M. D.
Mandeville, Bernard, 1670-1733.Date: MDCCXXV. [1725]- Books
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Address to the sovereigns of Europe etc. etc. In two parts. By Obadia Prim. Part second. The first part contains an Appeal to the Sovereigns of Europe, to Proprietors, Merchants and all Well - wishers of social order - with a sketch of the Conduct of the Legislators of France during the Revolution. The second part contains a Letter to Bnonaparte on his Military and Political Conduct - To which are annexed I0 The principles of morality as decreed and acknowledged by the different legislative bodies of France. II0 A summary, in order of dates, of the most remarkable crimes committeed since the beginning of the Revolution - a table of the contributions, requisitions, forced loans etc.
Winsor, F. A. (Frederick Albert), 1763-1830.Date: [1798]- Books
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The ordinary of Newgate his account of the behaviours, confessions, and last dying words of the malefactors that were executed at Tyburn on Friday the 29th of January, 1719-20
Purney, Thomas, 1695-approximately 1727.Date: 1720]- Books
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The annals of Newgate; or, malefactors register. Containing a particular and circumstantial account of the lives, transactions, and trials of the most notorious malefactors, who have suffered an ignominious Death for their Offences, viz. for Parricide, Murder, Treason, Robbery, Burglary, Piracy, Coining, Forgery, and Rapes: From the Commitment of the celebrated John Sheppard, to the Acquittal of the equally celebrated Margaret Caroline Rudd. Including a Period of fifty Years and upwards, both in Town and Country. Calculated To expose the Desormity of Vice, the Infamy and Punishments naturally attending those who deviate from the Paths of Virtue; and intended as a Beacon to warn the rising Generation against the Temptations, the Allurements, and the Dangers of bad Company. The former Part extracted from Records; and the Histories and Transactions of the modern Convicts, communicated by the unhappy Sufferers themselves, since the Author has been appointed to his present Office. By the Rev. Mr. Villette, Ordinary of Newgate, and others.
Villette, John, -1799.Date: 1776- Books
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The criminal and the community / by James Devon.
Devon James.Date: 1912- Books
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Passion and criminality in France : a legal and literary study / by Louis Proal ; translated from the French by A. R. Allinsom [!].
Proal, Louis, 1843-Date: 1901- Books
Society and the criminal / by Sir Norwood East.
East, W. Norwood (William Norwood), Sir, 1872-1953.Date: 1949