Overview
- Provides the first book-length comparative quantitative analysis of the administration of the Bloody Code across English and Welsh counties
- Shifts attention away from eigtheenth and nineteenth century London, focusing instead on the periphery of England and into Wales
- Assesses patterns of death sentencing, executions and pardons for serious crimes against the person and forms of property offences
Part of the book series: World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence (WHCCV)
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The book is structured in two sections that trace the criminal justice process in England and Wales respectively. The first chapter in each section examines the pattern of indictments in the respective counties, and explores the crimes for which men and women were indicted, the verdicts handed down, and the sentences passed. The second chapter then explores patterns of sentences of death, executions and pardons for those capitally convicted of serious crimes against the person and forms of property offences.
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Book Title: The Bloody Code in England and Wales, 1760–1830
Authors: John Walliss
Series Title: World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74561-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-74560-2Published: 20 March 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09021-0Published: 22 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-74561-9Published: 09 March 2018
Series ISSN: 2730-9630
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9649
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 176
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Social History, Crime and Society, History of Early Modern Europe, History of Modern Europe