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Köp båda 2 för 3175 krLegal History Crime, Justice, and Discretion in England provides historians with a meticulously executed and revealing study of the functioning of the pre-Peel criminal justice system. King's analysis amply supports his concluding characterization of the system as one not simply of terror and exploitation, but of 'struggle, of negotiation, of accommodation' with practically every social group shaping the system and being shaped by it.
Reviews in History Peter King's Crime, Justice and Discretion.. is on a par withthe groundbreaking research of Thompson and his students ... every paragraph teems with evidence of King's mastery of the secondary sources, his painstaking archival research, and judicious consideration of the material he has assembled.
History Today ... interesting, thoughtful, scholarly and well-written.