Fair and Unfair Trials in the British Isles, 1800-1940
Microhistories of Justice and Injustice
Adopting a microhistory approach, Fair and Unfair Trials in the British Isles, 1800-1940 provides an in-depth examination of the evolution of the modern justice system. Drawing upon criminal cases and trials from England, Scotland, and Ireland, the book examines the errors, procedural systems, and the ways in which adverse influences of social and cultural forces impacted upon individual instances of justice. The book investigates several case studies of both justice and injustice which prompted the development of forensic toxicology, the implementation of state propaganda and an increased interest in press sensationalism. One such case study…
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Weitere Autoren: Kilday, Anne-Marie (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-350-05095-2
- EAN: 9781350050952
- Produktnummer: 34834531
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'874 KB
- Abbildungen: 10 bw illus
Über den Autor
David Nash is Professor of History at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He is the editor, together with Anne-Marie Kilday, of Law, Crime and Deviance Since 1700 (Bloomsbury, 2017) and the author of Christian Ideals in British Society (2013). He is the editor of the Social and Cultural History journal.Anne-Marie Kilday is Professor of Criminal History at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She is the author of A History of Infanticide in Britain (2013) and Women and Violent Crime in Enlightenment Scotland (2007), as well as the editor, together with David Nash, of Histories of Crime, 1600-2000 (2010).
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