1st Edition

Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth Century England

By McLynn Frank Copyright 1989
    440 Pages
    by Routledge

    440 Pages
    by Routledge

    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?

    1: London; 2: Law Enforcement; 3: Homicide; 4: Highwaymen; 5: Property Crime; 6: Women (1); 7: Women (2); 8: Crimes of the Powerful; 9: High Treason; 10: Smuggling; 11: Poaching; 12: Rioting; 13: Theories on Crime and Punishment; 14: Execution; 15: Secondary Punishment; 16: Crime and Social Change; 17: The Impact of War

    Biography

    Frank McLynn

    `(Frank McLynn's) grasp of his subject is masterly, his arguments are lucid, and his research daunting.' - The Times

    `Scholarly, sensible and acute ... McLynn's book is the most valuable contribution to the history of crime and punishment ...' - Christopher Hibbert, The Sunday Times

    `Comprehensive view of crime and its consequences in 18th-century England.'' - British Book News

    ` ... the author has been assiduous in his research and produced an absorbing and alarming study of a society in disarray.' - Peter Parker, The Listener