Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth Century England

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Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth Century England

Crime and criminology Social and cultural history

Author: Frank McLynn

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Language: English

Published by: Routledge

Published on: 17th June 2013

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 5 Mb

ISBN: 9781136093166


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?

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