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Gender, Crime and Judicial Discretion 1780-1830
Deirdre Palk
出版Boydell & Brewer, 2006
主題History / WorldHistory / Modern / GeneralLaw / Criminal Law / GeneralLaw / Gender & the LawLaw / Judicial PowerSocial Science / CriminologyTrue Crime / General
ISBN086193282X9780861932825
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=YiSepzvDXi4C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Crimes in England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were both committed and judged differently, depending on whether the culprit was male or female.
Based on a wide range of primary material, this book follows the journeys of men and women implicated in the capital crimes of shoplifting, pickpocketing and distributing forged banknotes, through their trials and on to death, transportation, imprisonment or even to complete freedom. This study of the English judicial system in London provides a detailed view of its complex workings, with particular attention to the role, and apparently more lenient treatment, of women. The evidence presented also sheds light on the complex decision-making policies of a criminal justice administration burdened by the weight of increasing criminal business.
DEIRDRE PALK is an independent researcher in eighteenth and nineteenth-century social and administrativehistory.