This comprehensive work explores the broad question of how the English courts dealt with crime in the period during which the foundations of modern forms of judicial administration were being laid.
Crime and the Courts in England 1660-1800 Summary
Crime and the Courts in England 1660-1800 by J. M. Beattie
This comprehensive work explores the broad question of how the English courts dealt with crime in the period during which the foundations of modern forms of judicial administration were being laid.
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`a work of powerful scholarship and enormous erudition. It is the most substantial product of the new social history of crime to date.' John Styles, The Times Higher Education Supplement `detailed and meticulousely researched ... John Beattie's Crime and the Courts is a massive and impressive study of crime, judical procedure and punishment, and of the relationship between them. His careful analysis will be required reading for any serious student of the history of crime and law.' Continuity and Change
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9780198200574
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Crime and the Courts in England 1660-1800 by J. M. Beattie
Winner of Winner of the Leo Gershoy Award (American Historical Association), 1986, the Louis Gottschalk Prize (American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies), 1987, the John Benn Snow Prize (North American Conference on British Studies), 1987, the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize (Canadian Historical Association) 1987, and the Francois-Xavier Garneau Prize (Canadian Historical Association) 1990..
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