Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth Century EnglandRoutledge, 17.06.2013 - 432 Seiten 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? |
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| 1 | |
2 Law Enforcement | 17 |
3 Homicide | 36 |
4 Highwaymen | 56 |
5 Property Crime | 83 |
6 Women 1 | 96 |
7 Women 2 | 116 |
8 Crimes of the Powerful | 133 |
12 Rioting | 218 |
13 Theories on Crime and Punishment | 242 |
14 Execution | 257 |
15 Secondary Punishment | 277 |
16 Crime and Social Change | 299 |
17 The Impact of War | 320 |
Afterword | 341 |
Notes | 347 |
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