Prosecution and Punishment: Petty Crime and the Law in London and Rural Middlesex, C.1660 1725 by Robert Brink Shoemaker

Prosecution and Punishment: Petty Crime and the Law in London and Rural Middlesex, C.1660 1725

Robert Brink Shoemaker

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The law was one of the most potent sources of authority and stability in early modern England. Historians, however, have argued over whether the discretion and flexibility embodied in the judicial system was used as a method of social control, and...

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