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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... Prison 19 The riot in Broad Street, 7 June 1780, after Wheatley 20 John Howard 21 Daniel Defoe in 1706, by M. van der Gucht, after J. Taverner 22 The carts taking oondemned men to Tyburn 23 Execution at Tyburn, by Rowlandson 24 Industry ...
... Prison 19 The riot in Broad Street, 7 June 1780, after Wheatley 20 John Howard 21 Daniel Defoe in 1706, by M. van der Gucht, after J. Taverner 22 The carts taking oondemned men to Tyburn 23 Execution at Tyburn, by Rowlandson 24 Industry ...
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... prison had to be bought, citizens who petitioned for justice had themselves to line the pockets of those who had bought these 'places'. In addition, there was no system of public prosecution. A citizen was expected to do his own police ...
... prison had to be bought, citizens who petitioned for justice had themselves to line the pockets of those who had bought these 'places'. In addition, there was no system of public prosecution. A citizen was expected to do his own police ...
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... prison for debt in 1710. As so often, prison turned a petty criminal into a hardened professional.38 Released in 1712 under the Act for the deliverance of debtors, he set up as a brothel-keeper with his common-law wife Mary Milliner (or ...
... prison for debt in 1710. As so often, prison turned a petty criminal into a hardened professional.38 Released in 1712 under the Act for the deliverance of debtors, he set up as a brothel-keeper with his common-law wife Mary Milliner (or ...
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Inhalt
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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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