Crime and Society in England, 1750-1900 (1996)

Crime and Society in England, 1750-1900 (1996)

Clive Emsley

Year: 1996
Authors: Clive Emsley
Publishers: Longman Publishing Group
Pages: 338
Print type: BOOK

Description:

Clive Emsley examines the changes in crime and the criminal justice system against the larger changes in an industrialising society, and challenges such simplistic views of crime as the work of a criminal class, and changes in the justice system as solely due to humanitarian reformers.