This book is a comparative quantitative analysis of the administration of justice across four English and three Welsh counties between 1760 and 1830. Drawing on a dataset of over 22,000 indictments, the book explores the similarities and differences between how the so-called Bloody Code was administered between, on the one hand, England and Wales, and, on the other, individual English and Welsh counties. The book is structured in two sections that trace the criminal justice process in England and Wales respectively. The first chapter in each section examines the pattern of indictments in the respective counties, and explores the crimes for which men and women were indicted, the verdicts handed down, and the sentences passed. The second chapter then explores patterns of sentences of death, executions and pardons for those capitally convicted of serious crimes against the person and forms of property offences.
Format: Paperback / softback
CONTRIBUTORS: John Walliss
EAN: 9783030090210
COUNTRY: Switzerland
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WEIGHT: 454 g
HEIGHT: 210 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
DATE PUBLISHED: 2018-12-22
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GENRE: HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, HISTORY / Social History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
WIDTH: 148 cm
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Book Themes:
Western Europe, c 1500 onwards to present day, Crime and criminology, European history, Social and cultural history
John Walliss is Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Social Sciences at Liverpool Hope University, UK.
