Prosecution and punishment : petty crime and the law in London and rural Middlesex, c1660-1725 / Robert B. Shoemaker.

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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1991.

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1624

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Cambridge studies in early modern British history.

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Criminal justice, Administration of -- History.

Punishment -- History.

Contents:

Part I Background

1 Introduction

2 Options for prosecution

3 Patterns of prosecutions

Part II Procedures for prosecution

4 Information mediation by justices of the peace

5 Binding over by recognizance

6 Indictment at quarter sessions

7 Houses of correction

Part III The Contexts of misdemeanor prosecutions

8 The participants: plaintiffs, defendants, and justices of the peace

9 The reformation of manners campaign

10 Geographical contexts

11 Conclusion: Law and society in preindustrial England.

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0521400821

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xviii, 351 p. ; 24 cm