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A history of criminal justice in England and Wales / John Hostettler.
- Title
- A history of criminal justice in England and Wales / John Hostettler.
- Author
- Hostettler, John.
- Publication
- Sherfield on Loddon, Hook, Hampshire, U.K. : Waterside Press ; Portland, Or. USA : North American distributor, International Specialised Book Services, 2009.
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Details
- Description
- x, 347 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "An ideal introduction to the rich history of criminal justice charting all its main developments from the dooms of Anglo-Saxon times to the rise of the Common Law, struggles for political, legislative and judicial ascendency and the formation of the innovative Criminal Justice System of today."--Back cover.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-320) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Origins of criminal justice in Anglo-Saxon England -- Saxon dooms : our early laws -- Norman influence and the Angevin legacy -- Criminal law in medieval and early modern England -- Common law in danger -- Commonwealth -- Whig supremacy and adversary trial -- Jury in the eighteenth century -- Punishment and prisons -- Nineteenth-century crime and policing -- Victorian images -- Century of criminal law reform -- Criminal incapacity -- Revolution in procedure -- Early twentieth century -- Improvement after World War II -- Twenty-first century regression? -- Placing criminal justice in perspective.
- ISBN
- 9781904380511
- 1904380514
- OCLC
- 231588554
- SCSB-10453428
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library