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This survey of crime in ENgland from the medieval period to the present day synthesizes case-study and local-level material and standardizes the debates and issues for the student reader.
Part 1 The medieval inheritance: defining crime; the medieval system in its prime. Part 2 The pre-industrial response to crime: Tudor crime; imposing the law; riots and political crime; punishments; manor courts. Part 3 Crime in industrial England: the control of society; threats to public order; crimes against property and the person; statutory creation of new crimes; law reform - policing, sentencing and punishing. Part 4 The making of the modern criminal: poverty, prosperity and the criminal; crime - and technology, sex, subversion, insanity, drink and drugs, punishment, sensation.
