Criminal and Victim: Crime and Scoeity in Early Nineteenth-Century England

by George Rudé

This social history not only studies crime and punishment in early 19th-century England, but also draws on higher court records to reconstruct case histories of the actual people involved in crime: the prisoners and the victims. The book focuses on Sussex, Gloucester, and Middlesec counties, each in its own way typical of developments in early British industrial society between 1800 and 1850. By examining crime as a social as well as a legal phenomenon,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198226462
• ISBN13: 9780198226468
• Release Date: December 1985
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.