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Prosecution and Punishment [book]

01 January 1991

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Prosecution and Punishment [book]
libdoc November=1992

Full title: Prosecution and Punishment: petty crime and the law
in London and rural Middlesex, c.1660-1725
Author: Shoemaker, Robert B
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 1991 pp351 Appendices
Bibliography
Index
Keywords: Law Crime History Magistrates

Contents:
"This study traces the attitudes behind the enforcement of the
criminal law in early modern England. The first book to be based
on seventeenth-century legal records beyond the county of Essex,
it blends sociasl, legal and political history and offers an
important complement to more conventional studies, as well as
providing an original background to our understanding of the
decades before the outbreak of the Civil War." (Publishers text)

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