Crime and power : a history of criminal justice, 1688-1998
In Crime and Power, Philip Rawlings traces the emergence of law, order and the criminal justice system as an issue in British politics and society, from the late 17th century to the late 1990s
History
ix, 212 pages ; 24 cm
9780582304017, 0582304016
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1. 'The Very Hands and Feet of Every Kingdom'
2. Peace and Police: The 1748 Crime Panic
3. Legal Massacres: Capital Punishment in the Late Eighteenth-Century
4. Transportation and the New Prisons, 1750-1790
5. Establishing a New Police, 1792-1856
6. Prisons, 1790-1877
7. The Triumph of the Home Office, 1877-1900
8. Building the New Jerusalem, 1890-1950
9. An End to Optimism, 1950-1997
10. The Thin Blue Line