Rogues, Thieves And the Rule of Law : The Problem Of Law Enforcement In North-East England, 1718-1820

ISBN-13: 9781857281163 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 304 str.

Gwenda Morgan; Peter Rushton

Opis

Rogues, Thieves and the Rule of Law is a large-scale study of crime, disorder and law enforcement in northern England in the early modern period. London was not the only city where female criminals were common and gangs were feared, nor was it the sole centre of industrial and political agitation. The north was an area of national significance which supplied the capital with its fuel and whose tendency to industrial insurgence commanded the attention of every 18th-century administration.

Recenzje

'Morgan and Rushton's sensitivity to place and, consequently their illumination of the relationship between state and locality in the eighteenth century deserve particularly to be applauded.' - Economic History Review

Spis treści

The region and its counties; Crime, definition and detection; The JPs and their response; The assizes and the bloody code in the North; Transportation to America; The rise of the prison; Conclusion: peace in the dark corners.

O autorze

Gwenda Morgan, Peter Rushton