Crime and punishment in eighteenth-century England
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Crime and punishment in eighteenth-century England
Routledge, 2014, c1989
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Crime & punishment in eighteenth-century England
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"First issued in paperback 2014"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-387) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
McLynn provides the first comprehensive view of crime and its consequences in the eighteenth century: why was England notorious for violence? Why did the death penalty prove no deterrent? Was it a crude means of redistributing wealth?
Table of Contents
- 1: London
- 2: Law Enforcement
- 3: Homicide
- 4: Highwaymen
- 5: Property Crime
- 6: Women (1)
- 7: Women (2)
- 8: Crimes of the Powerful
- 9: High Treason
- 10: Smuggling
- 11: Poaching
- 12: Rioting
- 13: Theories on Crime and Punishment
- 14: Execution
- 15: Secondary Punishment
- 16: Crime and Social Change
- 17: The Impact of War
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