A history of criminal justice in England and Wales / John Hostettler.

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Hook, Hampshire : Waterside Press, 2009.

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1st edition

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81521

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Criminal justice, Administration of -- England -- History.

Criminal justice, Administration of -- Wales -- History.

Criminal law -- England -- History.

Criminal law -- Wales -- History.

Contents:

1. Origins of criminal justice in Anglo-Saxon England

2. Saxon dooms : our early laws

3. Norman influence and the Angevin legacy

4. Criminal law in medieval and early modern England

5. Common law in danger

6. The Commonwealth

7. Whig supremacy and adversary trial

8. Jury in the eighteenth century

9. Punishment and prisons

10. Nineteenth-century crime and policing

11. Victorian images

12. Century of criminal law reform

13. Criminal incapacity

14. Revolution in procedure

15. Early twentieth century

16. Improvement after World War II

17. Twenty-first century regression?

18. Placing criminal justice in perspective.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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9781904380511

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Phys. description:

x, 347 s. ; 24 cm