The criminal law has often been seen as central to the rule of the 18th century landed elite. Within detailed studies of every stage of the criminal process this volume explores key issues such as who used the law, for what purposes and with what effects It then challenges the view that the law was primarily the instrument of a small elite, portraying it instead as an arena of struggle, negotiation and compromise used by many different social groups. The criminal justice system may have sometimes been vulnerable to power but it was also useful in limiting it.
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"Peter King has produced a thoughtful and thought-provoking work that....deserves to be carefully and widely read by legal scholars and historians." - - Law and History Review
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"Peter King has produced a stunning account of discretionary justice in the criminal process. The study is a wonderful blend of quantitative and qualitative analysis. This book is a stunning achievement." - - he Law and Politics Book Review
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Peter King is a Professor of Social History, University College Northampton.
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In the unfolding drama of most property crime prosecutions the central role was played by the victim. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
property crime indictments, property crime cases, summary conviction certificates, indictment levels, pardoning system, pardoning decisions, partial verdict rates, indictment rates, game offenders, larceny convicts, female property offenders, prosecution associations, pardoning policies, vegetable thieves, felony accusations, game offences, pardoning process, labouring sort, petty sessions records, capital convicts, gaol calendars, quarter sessions bench, pardoning policy, partial verdicts, statutory rewards Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Home Circuit, The Times, The Hanging Tree, Bow Street, Home Office, The Great Diurnal, Epping Forest, Old Bailey, Saffron Walden, Branch Johnson, Genuine Proceedings, Rural England, Year Fig, Essex People, Social History, The Common Peace, The Hanging Tice, William Hutton, John Clare, Samuel Whitbread, The London Hanged, Adam Smith, Arthur Young, Country Parson, Earls Modern New!
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property crime indictments, property crime cases, summary conviction certificates, indictment levels, pardoning system, pardoning decisions, partial verdict rates, indictment rates, game offenders, larceny convicts, female property offenders, prosecution associations, pardoning policies, vegetable thieves, felony accusations, game offences, pardoning process, labouring sort, petty sessions records, capital convicts, gaol calendars, quarter sessions bench, pardoning policy, partial verdicts, statutory rewards Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Home Circuit, The Times, The Hanging Tree, Bow Street, Home Office, The Great Diurnal, Epping Forest, Old Bailey, Saffron Walden, Branch Johnson, Genuine Proceedings, Rural England, Year Fig, Essex People, Social History, The Common Peace, The Hanging Tice, William Hutton, John Clare, Samuel Whitbread, The London Hanged, Adam Smith, Arthur Young, Country Parson, Earls Modern New!
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- The London Hanged: Crime And Civil Society In The Eighteenth Century by Peter Linebaugh on 5 pages
- Poems of the Middle Period: Volume V: 1822-1837 (Oxford English Texts) by John Clare on page 181, page 182, and page 366
- Customs in Common: Studies in Traditional Popular Culture by E. P. Thompson on page 340, page 363, and page 373
- Adapting to Capitalism (Studies in Gender History) by Sharpe P in Front Matter, and page 207
- The Eighteenth Century (The Context of English Literature) by Pat Rogers in Front Matter, and page 363
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- Eighteenth-Century Criminal Transportation by Gwenda Morgan in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Character of Credit (Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories) by Margot C. Finn on page 203
- The Oxford Handbook of Criminology (Oxford Handbooks) by Mike Maguire on page 227
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