Crime and the law
Subtitle: the social history of crime in Western Europe since 1500
By: edited by V.A.C. Gatrell, Bruce Lenman, and Geoffrey Parker.
Contributors: Gatrell, V. A. C., 1941-; Lenman, Bruce.; Parker, Geoffrey, 1943-
Series: The Europa social history of human experience
Publisher: Europa Publications
Published: 1980
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
Subjects: Crime -- Europe -- History; Criminal law -- Europe -- History
Other titles: Crime & the law.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The state, the community, and the criminal law in early modern Europe / Bruce Lenman and Geoffrey Parker; title: Crimen exceptum / Christina Larner; title: Crime and punishment in early modern Spain / Michael Weisser; title: Enforcing the law in the seventeenth-century English village / J.A. Sharpe; title: The courts and the Scottish legal system, 1600-1747 / Stephen J. Davies; title: "A new engine of power and authority" / David Philips; title: The London garotting panic of 1862 / Jennifer Davis; title: Crime and the security of the state / Robert Tombs; title: The decline of theft and violence in Victorian and Edwardian England / V.A.C. Gatrell.