by Frank Mc Lynn (Author)
McLynn provides the first comprehensive view of crime and its consequences in the eighteenth century: why was England notorious for violence? Why did the death penalty prove no deterrent? Was it a crude means of redistributing wealth?
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 432
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 26 Oct 1989
ISBN 10: 0415010144
ISBN 13: 9780415010146