Crime And Punishment In England: An Introductory History [Paperback]

This survey of crime in ENgland from the medieval period to the present day synthesizes case-study and local-level material and standardizes the debates and issues for the student reader.An introductory text on the social history of crime, deviancy and criminal behaviour from 1100 to the present day.Part 1 The medieval inheritance: defining crime; the medieval system in its prime. Part 2 The pre-industrial response to crime: Tudor crime; imposing the law; riots and political crime; punishments; manor courts. Part 3 Crime in industrial England: the control of society; threats to public order; crimes against property and the person; statutory creation of new crimes; law reform - policing, sentencing and punishing. Part 4 The making of the modern criminal: poverty, prosperity and the criminal; crime - and technology, sex, subversion, insanity, drink and drugs, punishment, sensation.John Briggs, Mr John Briggs, Christopher Harrison, Angus McInnes, David VincentUS? John Briggs, Christopher Harrison, Angus McInnes, David Vincent 1996 This book is copyright under the Berne Convention.