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The bloody code in England and Wales, 1760-1830 /

3319745611

9783319745619

3319745603

9783319745602

The bloody code in England and Wales, 1760-1830 /

[Book]

John Walliss.

Cham, Switzerland :

Palgrave Macmillan,

[2018]

©2018

1 online resource

World histories of crime, culture and violence

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; A Note on Sources and Methodology; Chapter 1 Introduction; Part I England; Chapter 2 The Criminal Justice Process in Georgian England; Introduction; Patterns of Indictments; Indictments and Population; Indictments, War and Dearth; The Criminal Justice Process: From Indictment to Sentencing; Sex, Crime and Justice in Georgian England; Conclusion; Chapter 3 "The Lottery of Justice": The Bloody Code in England, 1760-1830; Introduction; Patterns of Sentences of Death, Pardons and Executions in England

Chapter 5 A Land of White Gloves? Life and Death in Georgian WalesIntroduction; Patterns of Sentences of Death, Pardons and Executions in Wales; Patterns of Executions and Pardons; Crimes Against the Person: Murder, Infanticide and Rape; Murder; Infanticide; Rape; Property Offences; General Patterns; Executions, Pardons and Population; War, Dearth and the Gallows; Sex, Property Offences and the Gallows; Conclusion; Chapter 6 Conclusion; Final Thoughts; Index

Patterns of Executions and PardonsCrimes Against the Person: Murder, Infanticide and Rape; Murder; Infanticide; Rape; Property Offences; General Patterns; Executions, Pardons and Population; War, Dearth and the Gallows; Sex, Property Crime and the Gallows; Conclusion; Part II Wales; Chapter 4 Crime and Justice in the Courts of Great Sessions: The Brecon Circuit 1760-1830; Introduction; Patterns of Indictments; Indictments and Population; Indictments, War and Dearth; The Criminal Justice Process: From Indictment to Sentencing; Sex Crime and Justice in Georgian Wales; Conclusion

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This book is a comparative quantitative analysis of the administration of justice across four English and three Welsh counties between 1760 and 1830. Drawing on a dataset of over 22,000 indictments, the book explores the similarities and differences between how the so-called Bloody Code was administered between, on the one hand, England and Wales, and, on the other, individual English and Welsh counties. Following the introduction, the book is structured in two main sections that trace the criminal justice process in England and Wales respectively. The first chapter in each section examines the pattern of indictments in the respective counties, and explores the crimes for which men and women were indicted, the verdicts handed down, and the sentences passed. The analysis then turns to the patterns of sentences of death, executions and pardons for those capitally convicted of serious crimes against the person and forms of property offences. .--

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Bloody code in England and Wales, 1760-1830.

9783319745602

Capital punishment-- Great Britain-- History.

Criminal justice, Administration of-- Great Britain-- History-- 18th century.

Criminal justice, Administration of-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.

Capital punishment.

Criminal justice, Administration of.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Criminology.

Great Britain.

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SOC-- 004000

Walliss, John,1974-

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