Crime And Punishment In England

An introductory text on the social history of crime, deviancy and criminal behaviour from 1100 to the present day.

John Briggs, Mr John Briggs, Christopher Harrison, Angus McInnes, David Vincent

Part 1 The medieval inheritance: defining crime; the medieval system in its prime. Part 2 The pre-industrial response to crime: Tudor crime; imposing the law; riots and political crime; punishments; manor courts. Part 3 Crime in industrial England: the control of society; threats to public order; crimes against property and the person; statutory creation of new crimes; law reform - policing, sentencing and punishing. Part 4 The making of the modern criminal: poverty, prosperity and the criminal; crime - and technology, sex, subversion, insanity, drink and drugs, punishment, sensation.