This comprehensive work explores the broad question of how the English courts dealt with crime in the period during which the foundations of modern forms of judicial administration were being laid.
Utmärkelser:Winner of the ^ULeo Gershoy Award^R (American Historical Association), 1986, the ^ULouis Gottschalk Prize^R (American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies), 1987, the ^UJohn Benn Snow Prize^R (North American Conference on British Studies), 1987, the ^UWallace K. Ferguson Prize^R (Canadian Historical Association) 1987, and the ^IFrancois-Xavier Garneau Prize^R (Canadian Historical Association) 1990.
`a work of powerful scholarship and enormous erudition. It is the most substantial product of the new social history of crime to date.'John Styles, The Times Higher Education Supplement
