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  • - Crime and Justice in the Eighteenth-Century Metropolis
    af Gregory J. Durston
    589,95 - 939,95 kr.

    The 'whores' and 'highwaymen' of the title are just some of the dubious characters met within this absorbing work, including thief-takers, trading justices, an upstart legal profession whose lower orders developed various ways to line their own pockets and magistrates and clerks who often preferred dealing with those cases which attracted fees.

  • af Gregory J. Durston
    596,95 kr.

    Fields, Fen and Felonies is neither a micro-history in the context of a parish, hundred, or small town nor national account, but a more unusual criminal justice history of a major English region with its own correlation with London and the rest of England in addition to its local differences and 'quirks'.

  • af Gregory J Durston
    382,95 kr.

    As the author notes, 'The early-modern European witch-hunts were neither orchestrated massacres nor spontaneous pogroms. Alleged witches were not rounded up at night and summarily killed extra-judicially or lynched as the victims of mob justice. They were executed after trial and conviction with full legal process'.

  • - Crime, Law, and Order in Tudor England
    af Gregory J Durston
    647,95 kr.

    In this addition to his Crime History Series, Gregory Durston points to the lack of design and short-term expediency that typified Tudor law and order. But he also detects an emergent criminal justice system amidst royal patronage, protection, and the influence of wealthy magnates.