A Trial of Witches by Ivan Bunn
'An excellent microhistory ... sensational, the characters are strongly marked and include leading personalities in law, religion and medicine - a good story, well told from extensive and minute primary research' - Ronald Hutton'In addition to its value as a historic record, this book offers a tragic lesson in the extraordinary willingness of people to rely uncritically on tainted information and do awful things' - Publishers Weekly, December 1997
Gilbert Geis is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society, at the University of California, Irvine. He is a former President of the American Society of Criminology and recipient of its Edwin H. Sutherland Award for outstanding research. He is the co-author of A Trial of Witches: A Seventeenth-Century Witchcraft Prosecution. Leigh B. Bienen is a Senior Lecturer at the Northwestern University School of Law. A former public defender, she has published numerous articles on homicide, the death penalty, juries, and sex offenses. She is the co-author of Jurors and Rape.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780415171090 |
| ISBN 10 | 0415171091 |
| Title | A Trial of Witches |
| Author | Ivan Bunn |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Year published | 1997-10-23 |
| Number of pages | 308 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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