目次
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.
