Armed with Sword and Scales

ISBN-13: 9781108798464 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 425 str.

Sascha (University of Nottingham) Auerbach

Opis

Explores how local courtrooms have been a common feature of everyday life and culture since the eighteenth century.

Recenzje

'Armed with Sword and Scales will become renowned, above all, for its compelling replacement of the notion of a “policeman-state” by that of a “court-going community” … Auerbach finds in the historical record little to validate an unrelievedly coercive interpretation of the police courts, and much to demonstrate the role of individual agency and the creative use of the law and its machinery.' Victor Bailey, Journal of British Studies

Spis treści

Introduction: Courtroom Culture; 1. 'Many-Coloured Scenes of Life': The Police Courts in Metropolitan Culture and Society, 1758–1860; 2. 'A Ruffian Rightly Punished': Morality and Local Courtrooms in Practice and Portrayal, 1860–1880; 3. 'An Evil Quarter of an Hour About the Precincts': Urban Reform and Municipal Authority in the Courtroom, 1870–1902; 4. 'Two Shillings' Worth of Revenge in the Form of a Summons': The Integration of Courtrooms and Communities in London, 1882–1902; 5. A Poor Woman's Court of Justice, 1882–1910; 6. 'The Very Centre of Observation and Information': Constables, Magistrates, and Changing Patterns of Prosecution and Punishment, 1880–1913; Conclusion: The Historical and Cultural Legacies of the London Magistrates Courts.