Modern histories of crime and punishment
By: edited by Markus D. Dubber and Lindsay Farmer.
Contributors: Dubber, Markus Dirk.; Farmer, Lindsay, 1963-
Series: Critical perspectives on crime and law
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780804754118; 9780804754125
Subjects: Criminal justice, Administration of -- Great Britain -- History; Criminal justice, Administration of -- India -- History; Criminal justice, Administration of -- History; Criminal liability -- History; Crime -- History; Punishment -- History; Criminal law -- History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Character, capacity, outcome : toward a framework for assessing the shifting pattern of criminal responsibility in modern English law / Nicola Lacey; title: Criminal responsibility and the proof of guilt / Lindsay Farmer; title: "An inducement to morbid minds" : politics and madness in the Victorian courtroom / Joel Peter Eigen; title: The meaning of killing / Guyora Binder; title: "An extraordinarily beautiful document" : Jefferson's bill for proportioning crimes and punishments and the challenge of Republican punishment / Markus D. Dubber; title: The myth of private prosecution in England, 1790-1850 / Bruce P. Smith; title: Hans Litten and the politics of criminal law in the Weimar Republic / Benjamin Hett; title: Civilizing Darwin : Holmes on criminal law / Gerry Leonard; title: Bodies, words, identities : the moving targets of the criminal law / Mariana Valverde; title: Criminal law at a fault line of imperial authority : inter-racial homicide trials in British India / Martin Wiener; title: Crime and punishment on the tea plantations of colonial India / Elizabeth Kolsky; title: "Enfeebling the arm of justice" : perjury and prevarication in British India / Wendie Ellen Schneider.