Crime and law in England, 1750-1840 : remaking justice from the margins / Peter King.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

King, Peter, 1949-

Series:

Past and present publications

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crime--England--History--18th century.

Crime.

Crime--England--History--19th century.

Criminal justice, Administration of--England--History--18th century.

Criminal justice, Administration of.

Criminal justice, Administration of--England--History--19th century.

History.

England.

Physical Description:

xvi, 348 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Contents:

1 Shaping and remaking justice from the margins. The courts, the law and patterns of lawbreaking 1750-1840 1

Part I Juveniles

2 The rise of juvenile delinquency in England 1780-1840: changing patterns of perception and prosecution 73

3 The punishment of juvenile offenders in the English courts 1780-1830. Changing attitudes and policies 114

4 The making of the reformatory. The development of informal reformatory sentences for juvenile offenders 1780-1830 142

Part II Gender

5 Gender, crime and justice in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England 165

6 Gender and recorded crime. The long-term impact of female offenders on prosecution rates across England and Wales 1750-1850 196

Part III Non-lethal violence

7 Punishing assault: the transformation of attitudes in the English courts 227

8 Changing attitudes to violence in the Cornish courts 1730-1830 255

Part IV The attack on customary rights

9 Legal change, customary right and social conflict in late eighteenth-century England: the origins of the Great Gleaning Case of 1788 281

10 Gleaners, farmers and the failure of legal sanctions in England 1750-1850 308.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

052178199X

9780521781992

OCLC:

70764825