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Crimen Exceptum
As the author notes, `The early-modern European witch-hunts were neither orchestrated massacres nor spontaneous pogroms. Alleged witches were not rounded up at night and summarily …
Wicked Ladies
In recent years, much has been published on women, crime and justice in English history. However, for a variety of reasons, particularly the ready availability of source material …
Fields, Fens and Felonies
The contents include justices of the peace, policing, crimes, courts and judges as well as such matters as summary trial and disposal, jury trial, execution (and reprieve), a …
Whores and Highwaymen
A fresh perspective on a crucial time for courts, policing and punishment. Shows how individuals, concerned parties and vested interests drove many of the era's developments. A …
Jacks, Knaves and Vagabonds
Students of English history will have heard how benefit of clergy and the 'neck verse' might avoid a hanging, but what of other stratagems such as down-valuing stolen goods, …
Fields, Fens and Felonies
A new work on Crime and Punishment in East Anglia (and elsewhere) during the eighteenth century. It was a time of highwaymen, footpads and desperate petty offenders, draconian …
The Little Book of Market Manipulation
Market manipulation comes in many forms. For a wrong that some say started life with groups of men dressed in Bourbon uniforms spreading false information in cod French accents, …
Whores and Highwaymen
The 'whores' and 'highwaymen' of Gregory Durston's title are just some of the dubious characters met within this absorbing work, including thief-takers, trading justices, an …
Known to the Police
This book considers the Victorian criminal-justice system in the context of a single English county, Norfolk. It examines all its aspects, from the commission of a crime, via the …
The Law of Contract in England & Wales
The Little Book of Insider Dealing
Since the Financial Crisis of 2008, criminal prosecution has moved to centre-stage as the Financial Conduct Authority's preferred means of punishing and deterring insider dealing …
Burglars and Bobbies
The early decades of the nineteenth century witnessed an apparent deterioration in public order and security in the London area. This continued to worsen until the middle of the …