Crime, Justice And Discretion In England 1740-1820

The criminal law has often been seen as central to the role of the eighteenth-century landed elite. This volume explores issues such as who used the law, for what purposes and with what effects. It then challenges the view that the law was primarily the instrument of small elite, portraying it instead as an arena of struggle and compromise.

• | By (Author): Peter (Professor of Social History, University College Northampton) King
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• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 23, 2003
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 398 pages
• | Language: Not available
• | Binding: Paperback|Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0007233485
• | ISBN-13: 9780199259076