Crime, Justice, and Discretion in England 1740-1820

by PeterKing (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2003

  $89.59

  The criminal law has often been seen as central to the role of the eighteenth-century landed elite. This volume explores issues such as who used the law, for what purposes and with what effects. It then challenges the view that the law was primarily the instrument of small elite, portraying it instead as an arena of struggle and compromise.