Crime, Law and Popular Culture in Europe, 1500-1900

by RichardMcMahon (Author)

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  Paperback
  2008

  $28.52

  Explores the relationship between crime, law and popular culture in Europe. This book addresses issues such as: participation by ordinary people as prosecutors, witnesses and jurors in the courts; the dynamics of court sittings; popular resistance to the operation; and how attitudes and ways of understanding crime and the law may have changed.