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Understanding modernisation in criminal justice.
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ISBN: 1281331279 0335235271 9780335235278 9781281331274 0335220665 9780335220663 0335220657 9780335220656 0335220657 9780335220656 Year: 2007 Publisher: Berkshire Open university press

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How have different criminal justice agencies responded to the modernization process? What forms does modernization take? This book theorizes modernization in the context of criminal justice. It is suitable for those concerned with the administration of criminal justice at both a policy and managerial level.

Medieval law in context: the growth of legal consciousness from Magna Carta to the Peasants' Revolt
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ISBN: 0719054931 071905494X 9780719054938 9780719054945 Year: 2001 Publisher: Manchester: Manchester University press,

Women waging law in Elizabethan England
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ISBN: 0521495547 9780521023252 0521023254 9780521495547 9780511583124 0511583125 0511004141 9780511004148 Year: 1998 Volume: *17 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,

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This book investigates the surprisingly large number of women who participated in the vast expansion of litigation in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Making use of legal sources, literary texts, and the neglected records of the Court of Requests, it describes women's rights under different jurisdictions, considers attitudes to women going to court, and reveals how female litigants used the law, as well as fell victim to it. In the central courts of Westminster, maidservants sued their masters, widows sued their creditors, and in defiance of a barrage of theoretical prohibitions, wives sued their husbands. The law was undoubtedly discriminatory, but certain women pursued actively such rights as they possessed. Some appeared as angry plaintiffs, while others played upon their poverty and vulnerability. A special feature of this study is the attention it pays to the different language and tactics that distinguish women's pleadings from men's pleadings within a national equity court.

Crime and law in England, 1750-1840 : remaking justice from the margins
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ISBN: 1107158559 1280709960 0511256876 0511257376 0511255772 0511319509 0511495870 0511256345 9780511256875 9780511257377 9780511495878 9786610709960 6610709963 052178199X 9780521781992 9780521129541 9781107158559 9781280709968 9780511255779 9780511319501 9780511256349 0521129540 Year: 2006 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,

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How was law made in England in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Through detailed studies of what the courts actually did, Peter King argues that parliament and the Westminster courts played a less important role in the process of law making than is usually assumed. Justice was often remade from the margins by magistrates, judges and others at the local level. His book also focuses on four specific themes - gender, youth, violent crime and the attack on customary rights. In doing so it highlights a variety of important changes - the relatively lenient treatment meted out to women by the late eighteenth century, the early development of the juvenile reformatory in England before 1825, i.e. before similar changes on the continent or in America, and the growing intolerance of the courts towards everyday violence. This study is invaluable reading to anyone interested in British political and legal history.


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Die angelsächsische Rechtspflege und wie man sie später aufgefaßt hat
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ISBN: 3769616030 9783769616033 Year: 1999 Volume: 1999,2 Publisher: München: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften,

The trial in history.. 1, Judicial tribunals in England and Europe, 1200-1700
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ISBN: 0719063426 9786610734320 1847790224 1280734329 1417575530 0719063434 9781417575534 9781280734328 9780719063428 Year: 2003 Publisher: Manchester: Manchester University press,

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Dealing with trials, civil and criminal, ecclesiastical and secular, in England and Europe between the 13th and 17th centuries, this text gives a rounded view of trials conducted according to different procedures within contrasting legal systems, including English common law and Roman canon law.

Controlling misbehavior in England, 1370-1600
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ISBN: 0511582781 0511002858 9780511002854 9780511582783 0521621771 9780521621779 9780521894043 0521894042 Year: 1998 Volume: 34 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,

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In this important study, Professor McIntosh argues against the suggestion that social regulation was a distinctive feature of the decades around 1600, resulting from Puritanism. Instead, through an examination of 255 village and small-town communities distributed throughout England, Professor McIntosh demonstrates that concern with wrongdoing mounted gradually between 1370 and 1600. In an attempt to maintain good order and enforce ethical conduct, local leaders prosecuted people who slandered or quarrelled with their neighbours, engaged in sexual misdeeds, operated unruly alehouses, or refused to work. Professor McIntosh also explores who the offenders were as well as the factors that led to misbehaviour and shaped responses to it. More generally, Professor McIntosh sheds light on the transition from medieval to early modern patterns and succeeds here in opening up little-known sources and new research methods.

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