Legal history

This book explores the transformation of the state in Wallachia, an Ottoman tributary principality, between 1740 and 1800, by focusing on three administrative techniques: regulations, paperwork (registers, identification certificates), and weights and measures.

Punishing the Other draws on the work of Zygmunt Bauman to discuss contemporary discourses and practices of punishment and criminalization.

The shocking behind-the-scenes story of the trial of Britain's infamous serial killer-and how he almost got away with murder.

The Idea of a Moral Economy is the first modern edition and English translation of three questions disputed at the University of Paris in 1330 by the theologian Gerard of Siena.

How have GATT/WTO staff and Appellate Body members contributed to the evolution of the rule of law in the multilateral trading system?

This book is an inquiry into how contingency fees distort our civil justice system, influence our political system and endanger democratic governance.

This book throws new light on white-collar crime, criminals and criminality in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain.

Thoroughly interdisciplinary in approach, this volume examines how concepts such as the exercising of power, the distribution of justice, and transgression against the law were treated in both textual and pictorial terms in works produced and circulated in medieval French manuscripts and early printed books.

Race, Recognition and Retribution in Contemporary Youth Justice provides a cross-national, sociohistorical investigation of the legacy of racial discrimination, which informs contemporary youth justice practice in Canada and England.

This book presents an up-to-date analysis of women as victims of crime, as individuals under justice system supervision, and as professionals in the field.

This edited collection brings together leading international academics and researchers to provide a comprehensive body of literature that informs the future of prison and wider corrective services training, education, research, policy and practice.

Taking inspiration from the classic text by Raymond Williams, Keywords in Criminology reflects on the language used by criminologists and offers a one stop guide to core concepts in the discipline.

Mainstream historians in recent decades have often treated formal categories and rules as something to be 'used' by individuals, as one might use a stick or stone, and the gains of an earlier legal history are often needlessly set aside.

Fully revised and updated, this classic text provides the authoritative introduction to the history of the English common law.

In Britain at least, changes in the law are expected to be made by the enactment of statutes or the decision of cases by senior judges.

Escape Routes: Contemporary Perspectives on Life After Punishment addresses the reasons why people stop offending, and the processes by which they are rehabilitated or resettled back into the community.

An important new contribution to the emerging field of late medieval supplicatory cultures.

Getting divorced and remarried are now common practices in European societies, even if the rules differ from one country to the next.

In 1840, Alexander Maconochie, a privileged retired naval captain, became at his own request superintendent of two thousand twice-convicted prisoners on Norfolk Island, a thousand miles off the coast of Australia.

In the aftermath of sixth-century barbarian invasions, the legal profession that had grown and flourished during the Roman Empire vanished.

The second edition of the Handbook on Prisons provides a completely revised and updated collection of essays on a wide range of topics concerning prisons and imprisonment.

In this book top scholars analyse the historic and contemporary influence of Magna Carta, challenging its common myths.

This remarkable collection of letters reveals the debate over universal human rights.

Private companies are increasingly involved with the security of domestic violence victims.

This book explores the development and application of the law of treason in England across more than a thousand years, placing this legal history within a broader historical context.

The second of two volumes, this book about the criminology of Carlo Morselli includes a diversity of contributions that study the social inter-dependence of criminal phenomena.

This concise book is an introduction to the role of international law in international relations.

What survives of the notions, principles and values of critical criminology?

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In 2014, Conrad Roy committed suicide following encouragement from his long-distance girlfriend, Michelle Carter, in what has become known as the Texting Suicide case.

In Negotiation and Resistance, Constance Brittain Bouchard challenges familiar depictions of the peasantry as an undifferentiated mass of impoverished and powerless workers.

Leading historians of English law examine the relationship between substantive law and legal process from medieval to modern times.

Although it has a rich historiography, and from the late ninth century is rich in textual evidence, northern Iberia has barely featured in the great debates of early medieval European history of recent generations.

Examines early modern Spanish contributions to international relations by focusing on ambivalence of natural rights in European colonial expansion to the Americas.

This collection brings together historians, political theorists and literary scholars to provide historical perspectives on the modern debate over freedom of speech, particularly the question of whether limitations might be necessary given religious pluralism and concerns about hate speech.

Nineteenth-century America witnessed some of the most important and fruitful areas of intersection between the law and humanities, as people began to realize that the law, formerly confined to courts and lawyers, might also find expression in a variety of ostensibly non-legal areas such as painting, poetry, fiction, and sculpture.

This book is a thoroughly updated version of the popular first edition of The Prison Officer.

At a micro level, this collection unveils the contractual knowledge that led to the globalization of markets over the last century.

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Children who come into conflict with the law are more likely to have experienced violence or adversity than their non-offending peers.

In recent years, the lifecourse perspective has become a popular theoretical orientation toward crime.