English Criminal Justice In The 19th Century

Author : David Bentley
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781852851354

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English Criminal Justice in the 19th Century by David Bentley Pdf

While it is easy to assume that the system of criminal justice in nineteenth-century England was not unlike the modern one, in many ways it was very different, particularly before the series of Victorian reforms that gradually codified a system dependent on judge-made precedent. In the first half of the century capital cases often tried almost summarily, with the accused not being adequately represented and without a system of appeal. There were also fundamental differences in procedure and in the rules of evidence, as indeed there were in attitudes towards crime and criminals. David Bentley has provided an account of the nineteenth-century criminal justice system as a whole, from the crimes committed and the classification of offences to the different courts and their procedure. He describes the stages of criminal prosecution -- committal, indictment, trial, verdict and punishment -- and the judges, lawyers and juries, highlighting significant changes in the rules of evidence during the century. He looks at the reform of the old system and assesses how far it was brought about by lawyers themselves and how far by external forces. Finally, he considers the fairness of the system, both as seen by contemporaries and in modern terms.

Author : Victor Bailey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317374893

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Policing and Punishment in Nineteenth Century Britain by Victor Bailey Pdf

In the years between 1750 and 1868, English criminal justice underwent significant changes. The two most crucial developments were the gradual establishment of an organised, regular police, and the emergence of new secondary punishments, following the restriction in the scope of the death penalty. In place of an ill-paid parish constabulary, functioning largely through a system of rewards and common informers, professional police institutions were given the task of executing a speedy and systematic enforcement of the criminal law. In lieu of the severe and capriciously-administered capital laws, a penalty structure based on a proportionality between the gravity of crimes and the severity of punishments was erected as arguably a more effective deterrent of crime. This book, first published in 1981, examines the impact of these two important developments and casts new light on the way in which law enforcement evolved during the nineteenth century. This title will be of interest to students of history and criminology.

Author : Victor Bailey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429995682

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Nineteenth-Century Crime and Punishment by Victor Bailey Pdf

This four volume collection looks at the essential issues concerning crime and punishment in the long nineteenth-century. Through the presentation of primary source documents, it explores the development of a modern pattern of crime and a modern system of penal policy and practice, illustrating the shift from eighteenth century patterns of crime (including the clash between rural custom and law) and punishment (unsystematic, selective, public, and body-centred) to nineteenth century patterns of crime (urban, increasing, and a metaphor for social instability and moral decay, before a remarkable late-century crime decline) and punishment (reform-minded, soul-centred, penetrative, uniform and private in application). The first two volumes focus on crime itself and illustrate the role of the criminal courts, the rise and fall of crime, the causes of crime as understood by contemporary investigators, the police ways of ‘knowing the criminal,’ the role of ‘moral panics,’ and the definition of the ‘criminal classes’ and ‘habitual offenders’. The final two volumes explore means of punishment and look at the shift from public and bodily punishments to transportation, the rise of the penitentiary, the convict prison system, and the late-century decline in the prison population and loss of faith in the prison.

Author : Helen Johnston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317669340

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Crime in England 1815-1880 by Helen Johnston Pdf

Crime in England, 1815-1880 provides a unique insight into views on crime and criminality and the operation of the criminal justice system in England from the early to the late nineteenth century. This book examines the perceived problem and causes of crime, views about offenders and the consequences of these views for the treatment of offenders in the criminal justice system. The book explores the perceived causes of criminality, as well as concerns about particular groups of offenders, such as the 'criminal classes' and the 'habitual offender', the female offender and the juvenile criminal. It also considers the development of policing, the systems of capital punishment and the transportation of offenders overseas, as well as the evolution of both local and convict prison systems. The discussion primarily investigates those who were drawn into the criminal justice system and the attitudes towards and mechanisms to address crime and offenders. The book draws together original research by the author to locate these broader developments and provides detailed case studies illuminating the lives of those who experienced the criminal justice system and how these changes were experienced in provincial England. With an emphasis on the penal system and case studies on offenders' lives and on provincial criminal justice, this book will be useful to academics and students interested in criminal justice, history and penology, as well as being of interest to the general reader.

Author : Erin Sheley
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781474450126

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Criminality and the Common Law Imagination in the 18th and 19th Centuries by Erin Sheley Pdf

Through interdisciplinary readings of a range of literary and legal texts across a 200-year period, this book uncovers how the cultural narrative affected the development of the law itself in the 18th and 19th centuries in three case studies: adultery, child criminality and rape testimony.

Author : James Fitzjames Stephen
Publisher : London : Macmillan
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Criminal law
ISBN : BSB:BSB11584667

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A History of the Criminal Law of England by James Fitzjames Stephen Pdf

Author : Clive Emsley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317864493

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Crime and Society in England by Clive Emsley Pdf

Acknowledged as one of the best introductions to the history of crime in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries,Crime and Society in England 1750-1900 examines thedevelopments in policing, the courts, and the penal system as England became increasingly industrialised and urbanised. The book challenges the old but still influential idea that crime can be attributed to the behaviour of a criminal class and that changes in the criminal justice system were principally the work of far-sighted, humanitarian reformers. In this fourth edition of his now classic account, Professor Emsley draws on new research that has shifted the focus from class to gender, from property crime to violent crime and towards media constructions of offenders, while still maintaining a balance with influential early work in the area. Wide-ranging and accessible, the new edition examines: the value of criminal statistics the effect that contemporary ideas about class and gender had on perceptions of criminality changes in the patterns of crime developments in policing and the spread of summary punishment the increasing formality of the courts the growth of the prison as the principal form of punishment and debates about the decline in corporal and capital punishments Thoroughly updated throughout, the fourth edition also includes, for the first time, illuminating contemporary illustrations.

Author : Peter King
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 113945949X

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Crime and Law in England, 1750–1840 by Peter King Pdf

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.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 102111314X

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Crime in England & Wales in the Nineteenth Century by Anonymous Pdf

This study of crime in 19th century England and Wales is a fascinating look at the roots of the modern criminal justice system. Based on extensive data analysis, the book examines crime rates, types of crimes, and punishment, as well as the social and economic factors that contributed to criminal behavior. A must-read for anyone interested in the history of crime and punishment. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : James Fitzjames Stephen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108060936

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A General View of the Criminal Law of England by James Fitzjames Stephen Pdf

This 1863 work aimed to provide an 'intelligible and interesting' account of the main principles of the English criminal justice system.

Author : Peter King
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2000-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191543753

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Crime, Justice and Discretion in England 1740-1820 by Peter King Pdf

The criminal law has often been seen as central to the rule of the eighteenth-century landed élite in England. This book presents a detailed analysis of the judicial processs - of victims' reactions, pretrial practices, policing, magistrates hearings, trials, sentencing, pardoning and punishment - using property offenders as its main focus. The period 1740-1820 - the final era before the coming of the new police and the repeal of the capital code - emerges as the great age of discretionary justice, and the book explores the impact of the vast discretionary powers held by many social groups. It reassesses both the relationship between crime rates and the economic deprivation, and the many ways that vulnerability to prosecution varied widely across the lifecycle, in the light of the highly selective nature of pretrial negotiations. More centrally, by asking at every stage - who used the law, for what purposes, in whose interests and with what social effects - it opens up a number of new perspectives on the role of the law in eighteenth-century social relations. The law emerges as less the instrument of particular élite groups and more as an arena of struggle, of negotiation, and of compromise. Its rituals were less controllable and its merciful moments less manageable and less exclusively available to the gentry élite than has been previously suggested. Justice was vulnerable to power, but was also mobilised to constrain it. Despite the key functions that the propertied fulfilled, courtroom crowds, the counter-theatre of the condemned, and the decisions of the victims from a very wide range of backgrounds had a role to play, and the criteria on which decisions were based were shaped as much by the broad and more humane discourse which Fielding called the 'good mind' as by the instrumental needs of the propertied élites.

Author : George F. E. Rudé
Publisher : Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037928418

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Criminal and Victim by George F. E. Rudé Pdf

This social history not only studies crime and punishment in early 19th-century England, but also draws on higher court records to reconstruct case histories of the actual people involved in crime: the prisoners and the victims. The book focuses on Sussex, Gloucester, and Middlesec counties, each in its own way typical of developments in early British industrial society between 1800 and 1850. By examining crime as a social as well as a legal phenomenon, the book casts new light on the different urban and rural patterns of crime, the influence of economic and political factors, and the social profiles of both criminals and victims.

Author : Clive Emsley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351384841

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Crime and Society in England, 1750–1900 by Clive Emsley Pdf

Ranging from the middle of the eighteenth through to the end of the nineteenth century, Crime and Society in England, 1750–1900 explores the developments in policing, the courts and the penal system as England became increasingly industrialised and urbanised. Through a consideration of the difficulty of defining crime, the book presents criminal behaviour as being intrinsically tied to historical context and uses this theory as the basis for its examination of crime within English society during this period. In this fifth edition Professor Emsley explores the most recent research, including the increased focus on ethnicity, gender and cultural representations of crime, allowing students to gain a broader view of modern English society. Divided thematically, the book’s coverage includes: the varying perceptions of crime across different social groups crime in the workplace the concepts of a ‘criminal class’ and ‘professional criminals’ the developments in the courts, the police and the prosecution of criminals. Thoroughly updated to address key questions surrounding crime and society in this period, and fully equipped with illustrations, tables and charts to further highlight important aspects, Crime and Society in England, 1750–1900 is the ideal introduction for students of modern crime.

Author : John Hostettler
Publisher : Waterside Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781906534790

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A History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales by John Hostettler Pdf

"An ideal introduction to the rich history of criminal justice charting all its main developments from the dooms of Anglo-Saxon times to the rise of the Common Law, struggles for political, legislative and judicial ascendency and the formation of the innovative Criminal Justice System of today."-back cover.

Author : Turner, Jo,Taylor, Paul
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447325895

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A companion to the history of crime and criminal justice by Turner, Jo,Taylor, Paul Pdf

The history of crime and punishment is an important, yet under-resourced area of criminology and criminal justice. This valuable book provides concise but robust definitions of key terms and concepts, going well beyond a simple explanation of the word or theme. Offering a succinct approach to the vocabulary and terminology of historical and contemporary approaches to crime and punishment, it includes entries from expert contributors in a user-friendly A-Z format with clear direction to related entries and further reading. Including explanations of terms ranging from 'garrotting' to The Bow Street Runners, baby farming to juvenile delinquency, this easily accessible text will be ideal for the reader to draw on across the variety of modules and studies relating to the topic.