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Eighteenth Century Criminal Transportation
Author | : G. Morgan,P. Rushton |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2003-12-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780230000872 |
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This is the first major study of the convict in the Atlantic world of the eighteenth century. It concentrates on the diverse characters of the transported men, women and children, and their fate in the colonies, exploring at the local level the contrasts in sentencing, shipping and settlement of convicts in America. The central myths about transportation prevalent in the eighteenth century, particularly that most felons returned, are examined in the context of the burgeoning print culture of criminal biographies and newspaper stories. In addition, the exchange of representations between the two sides of the Atlantic, and the changing American reaction to convicts, are placed within the growing transatlantic debate on transportation before the American Revolution. Above all, the realities of escape, of convicts running away and returning to England, are subject to systematic investigation for the first time.
Bound for America
Author | : A. Roger Ekirch |
Publsiher | : Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105038355413 |
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During the 18th century, transportation to the colonies became Britain's foremost criminal punishment. This study combines analysis with narrative to provide insights into the origins of crime and the treatment of offenders during this period in both the UK and the USA.
Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth Century England
Author | : Frank McLynn |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2013-06-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781136093166 |
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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?
Banishment in the Early Atlantic World
Author | : Gwenda Morgan,Peter Rushton |
Publsiher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2013-08-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781441106544 |
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This book places banishment in the early Atlantic world in its legal, political and social context.
Policing and Punishment in London 1660 1750
Author | : J. M. Beattie |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2001-07-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780191543326 |
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This study examines the considerable changes that took place in the criminal justice system in the City of London in the century after the Restoration, well before the inauguration of the so-called 'age of reform'. The policing institutions of the City were transformed in response to the problems created by the rapid expansion of the metropolis during the early modern period, and as a consequence of the emergence of a polite urban culture. At the same time, the City authorities were instrumental in the establishment of new forms of punishment - particularly transportation to the American colonies and confinement at hard labour - that for the first time made secondary sanctions available to the English courts for convicted felons and diminished the reliance on the terror created by capital punishment. The book investigates why in the century after 1660 the elements of an alternative means of dealing with crime in urban society were emerging in policing, in the practices and procedures of prosecution, and in the establishment of new forms of punishment.
Shoplifting in Eighteenth century England
Author | : Shelley Tickell |
Publsiher | : People, Markets, Goods: Economies and Societies in History |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Shoplifting |
ISBN | : 1783273283 |
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Shoplifting in Eighteenth-Century England examines the nature and impact on society of this commercial crime at a time of rapid retail expansion during the long eighteenth century. As a new consumer culture took root in England and shops proliferated, the crime of shoplifting leaped to public prominence. In 1699 shoplifting became a hanging offence. Yet whether compelled by need or greed, shoplifters continued to operate in substantial numbers on the shopping streets of London and provincial towns. Regarded initially as exclusively a crime of the poor, the eighteenth century witnessed a transformation in the public perception and understanding of such customer theft, signalled by the shocking arrest of Jane Austen's wealthy aunt for shoplifting in 1799. This book shows, through systematic profiling of those who committed this crime, that shoplifting was primarily a crime of the poor and predominantly an opportunist one. Providing both quantitative analysis and engaging insights into real-life stories, the book describes the variable strategies adopted by shoplifters to raid elite and poorer stores, the practical responses of shopkeepers to this predation and the financial impact on their businesses. It investigates the trade lobbying that led to the passing of the Shoplifting Act, the degree to which retailers co-operated with the judiciary and their engagement with the capital law reform movement of the later eighteenth century. Examining the range of goods stolen, the book also addresses questions of whether or not this form of theft was driven by consumer desire andsuggests that more subtle social and economic motives were at work. SHELLEY TICKELL is a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Hertfordshire
London Lives
Author | : Tim Hitchcock,Robert Shoemaker,Robert Brink Shoemaker |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 479 |
Release | : 2015-12-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107025271 |
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This book surveys the lives and experiences of hundreds of thousands of eighteenth-century non-elite Londoners in the evolution of the modern world.
Nineteenth Century Crime and Punishment
Author | : Victor Bailey |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2021-07-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780429995682 |
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This four volume collection looks at the essential issues concerning crime and punishment in the long nineteenth-century. Through the presentation of primary source documents, it explores the development of a modern pattern of crime and a modern system of penal policy and practice, illustrating the shift from eighteenth century patterns of crime (including the clash between rural custom and law) and punishment (unsystematic, selective, public, and body-centred) to nineteenth century patterns of crime (urban, increasing, and a metaphor for social instability and moral decay, before a remarkable late-century crime decline) and punishment (reform-minded, soul-centred, penetrative, uniform and private in application). The first two volumes focus on crime itself and illustrate the role of the criminal courts, the rise and fall of crime, the causes of crime as understood by contemporary investigators, the police ways of ‘knowing the criminal,’ the role of ‘moral panics,’ and the definition of the ‘criminal classes’ and ‘habitual offenders’. The final two volumes explore means of punishment and look at the shift from public and bodily punishments to transportation, the rise of the penitentiary, the convict prison system, and the late-century decline in the prison population and loss of faith in the prison.