ISBN:
9781782043249
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xii, 224 pages)
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DDC:
303.360941
Keywords:
Geschichte 1760-1914
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Geschichte
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Criminal justice, Administration of / England / Citizen participation / History
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Customary law courts / England / History
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Vigilance committees / England / History
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Dispute resolution (Law) / England / History
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Strafjustiz
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Ritual
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Strafvollstreckung
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Bürgerbeteiligung
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Großbritannien
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Großbritannien
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Strafjustiz
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Bürgerbeteiligung
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Strafvollstreckung
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Ritual
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Geschichte 1760-1914
Abstract:
This is a study of law, wrongdoing and justice as conceived in the minds of the ordinary people of England and Wales from the later eighteenth century to the First World War. Official justice was to become increasingly centralised with declining traditional courts, emerging professional policing and a new prison estate. However, popular concepts of what was, or should be, contained within the law were often at variance with its formal written content. Communities continued to hold mock courts, stage shaming processions and burn effigies of wrongdoers. The author investigates those justice rituals, the actors, the victims and the offences that occasioned them. He also considers the role such practices played in resistive communities trying to preserve their identity and assert their independence. Finally, whilst documenting the decline of popular justice traditions this book demonstrates that they were nevertheless important in bequeathing a powerful set of symbols and practices to the nascent labour movement. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of legal history and criminal justice as well as social and cultural history in what could be considered a very long nineteenth century. Stephen Banks is an associate professor in criminal law, criminal justice and legal history at the University of Reading, co-director of the Forum for Legal and Historical Research and author of A Polite Exchange of Bullets: The Duel and the English Gentleman, 1750-1850 (The Boydell Press, 2010)
Description / Table of Contents:
Law, Symbolism and Punishment -- Localism, Justice and the Right to Judge -- The Forms of Rough Music -- Sex, Gender and Moral Policing -- Defending Economic Interests -- Political Resistance -- Resistive Communities -- Performance and Proscription
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