Crime and society in England, 1750-1900
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Crime and society in England, 1750-1900
(Themes in British social history)
Longman, 1996
2nd ed
Available at 23 libraries
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Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This widely used book, first published in 1987, examines changes in crime and the criminal justice system against the larger changes in an industrialising society. Challenging the simplistic view of crime as the work of a criminal class, and changes in the justice system as solely due to humanitarian reformers, it also takes issue with analyses which explain crime patterns wholly in terms of the economic cycle. Recent growth in women's history has helped shift interest from property crime to violent crime, and a main feature of this extensively reworked Second Edition is an entirely new chapter on crime and gender.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Crime and the Law. 2. The Statistical Map. 3. Class Perceptions. 4. Environmental Perceptions. 5. Fiddles, Perks and Pilferage 6. A Mid-Point Assessment I: Crime and Gender. 7. A Mid-Point assessment II: The Criminal Class and Professional Criminals. 8. Prosecutors and the Courts. 9.Detection and Prevention: the Old Police and the New. 10. Punishment and Reformation. 11. Concluding Remarks. Further Reading. Index
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