Serious Crime in Late Seventeenth-Century Scotland

AvAllan D. Kennedy

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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This book explores serious criminality in Scotland between 1660 and c.1700. Through in-depth analysis of the records of the Justiciary Court, Scotland’s central criminal jurisdiction, it reconstructs the meaning of ‘crime’ as understood by seventeenth-century Scots, before moving on to assess patterns of prosecution, the causes of crime, the performance of criminality, and wider response to illegal behaviour, all with a view to reconstructing the social meaning of crime. The result is an unprecedentedly detailed and systematic account of criminal behaviour which adds a completely new perspective to our understanding of early modern Scotland.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-08-31
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781399533171

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Allan Kennedy is Lecturer in Scottish History at the University of Dundee. Previous books include Governing Gaeldom: The Scottish Highlands and the Restoration State, 1660-1688 (Brill, 2014), Serious Crime in Late Seventeenth-Century Scotland (EUP, 2025) and Early Modern Scotland: Themes in Focus (Routledge, 2026).

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This books offers the first substantial intervention in the history of crime in seventeenth-century Scotland. It provides an important account of how Scots conceptualised, prosecuted, and punished criminal behaviour. It is a must read for historians of Scottish social, economic and criminal life.

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List of IllustrationsAbbreviations and ConventionsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Crime in Early Modern ScotlandPart I. Crime in Context1. Conceptualising Crime2. The Matrix of Control3. Patterns of Prosecution and PunishmentPart II. The Experience of Crime4. Becoming Criminal5. Performing Crime6. Responses and ConsequencesConclusion: The Meaning of Crime in Late-Seventeenth Century ScotlandBibliographyIndex