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Title:
Modern histories of crime and punishment / edited by Markus D. Dubber and Lindsay Farmer.
Publisher:
Stanford University Press,
Copyright Date:
2007
Description:
ix, 335 p. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Criminal justice, Administration of--Great Britain--History
Criminal justice, Administration of--India--History.
Criminal justice, Administration of--History.
Criminal liability--History.
Crime--History.
Punishment--History.
Criminal law--History.
Other Authors:
Dubber, Markus Dirk.
Farmer, Lindsay, 1963-
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Character, capacity, outcome : toward a framework for assessing the shifting pattern of criminal responsibility in modern English law / Nicola Lacey -- Criminal responsibility and the proof of guilt / Lindsay Farmer -- "An inducement to morbid minds" : politics and madness in the Victorian courtroom / Joel Peter Eigen -- The meaning of killing / Guyora Binder -- "An extraordinarily beautiful document" : Jefferson's "bill for proportioning crimes and punishments" and the challenge of Republican punishment / Markus D. Dubber -- The myth of private prosecution in England, 1790-1850 / Bruce P. Smith -- Hans Litten and the politics of criminal law in the Weimar Republic / Benjamin Carter Hett -- Civilizing Darwin : Holmes on criminal law / Gerald Leonard -- Bodies, words, identities : the moving targets of the criminal law / Mariana Valverde -- Criminal law at a fault line of imperial authority : interracial homicide trials in British India / Martin Wiener -- Crime and punishment on the tea plantations of colonial India / Elizabeth Kolsky -- "Enfeebling the arm of justice" : perjury and prevarication in British India / Wendie Ellen Schneider.
Series:
Critical perspectives on crime and law
ISBN:
0804754128 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780804754125 (pbk. : alk. paper)
080475411X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780804754118 (cloth : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)122715477
LCCN:
2007014963
Locations:
N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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