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? |
Inhalt
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Homicide | 36 |
Highwaymen | 56 |
Property Crime | 83 |
Women 1 AS VICTIMS OF CRIME | 96 |
Women 2 AS CRIMINALS | 116 |
Crimes of the Powerful | 133 |
Rioting | 218 |
Theories on Crime and Punishment | 242 |
Execution | 257 |
Secondary Punishment | 277 |
Crime and Social Change | 299 |
The Impact of War | 320 |
Afterword | 341 |
Notes | 347 |
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