Legal history

Black thinkers in the antebellum United States grappled with what it meant to inhabit a place, a history, and a violent legal regime.

This book offers a one-stop guide to becoming employable and to careers in the criminal justice sector and beyond, exploring the key organisations and employers in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, explaining how they operate and detailing how they are changing.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

Originally published in English in 1976, this book shed new light upon a dark aspect of a dark age in the social history of Europe.

Prison is seen by most people as an inevitable part of the penal system, but there is a growing awareness that its effects on offenders are rarely beneficial and may be positively harmful.

Courtrooms and contracts.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

Originally published in 1930, this book outlines the system of local government at work in the reign of Edward I and provides a guide to the study of the 3 volumes of the Rotuli Hundredorum and Placita Quo Warranto which were printed early in the nineteenth century.

Originally published in 1958 and as a third edition in 1971, this comprehensive account of political thought in the Middle Ages presents medieval thinking against the historical background which animated it.

In 1808 the legislature of the Louisiana territory appointed two men to translate the Digest of the Laws in Force in the Territory of Orleans (or, as it was called at the time, simply the Code) from the original French into English.

Originally published in English in 1985, this book concentrates on the people of the Middle Ages and how they saw the world they lived in.

This book explores the complexities and nuances of reparations for victims and survivors of settler colonial violence.

This book shares our journey with restorative practice and provides insight into how we developed a programme that impacts school culture - the Builders Project.

Originally published in 1978, this global comparative survey investigates the political, social and economic features of feudalism.

Building on previous work in rural criminology, this book casts a global and comparative look across 19 countries, drawing on themes of crime and victimisation, safety and fear, practices of policing and police trust, and crime prevention practices.

The Growth of Criminal Law in Ancient Greece delves into the evolution of legal frameworks and societal attitudes that shaped the concept of crime and criminal law in Greek civilization.

Fathers of Conscience examines high-court decisions in the antebellum South that involved wills in which white male planters bequeathed property, freedom, or both to women of color and their mixed-race children.

Including a peer-support workbook with exercises, this book demonstrates the therapeutic value of art practice, both inside and outside institutions, as a more humane approach for children and adolescents affected by mass incarceration.

This book shares our journey with restorative practice and provides insight into how we developed a programme that impacts school culture - the Builders Project.

This comparative study looks at the laws concerning the murder of slaves by their masters and at how these laws were implemented.

Originally published in 1958 and as a third edition in 1971, this comprehensive account of political thought in the Middle Ages presents medieval thinking against the historical background which animated it.

The history and enduring legacy of a breakthrough case in criminal justice reformIn 1940, the United States Supreme Court decided inChambers v.

The culture of the ius commune has been a unifying element of European and Western legal civilization.

This book assembles critical contributions on the work of TRS Allan, the Professor Emeritus of Jurisprudence and Public Law at the University of Cambridge, whose leading work in legal and constitutional theory spans almost 45 years.

This book examines the complex relationships between young masculinities and sexual health within Southern Africa.

This book explores how and why the UK left the European Union and its impact on the British Constitution.

The history and enduring legacy of a breakthrough case in criminal justice reformIn 1940, the United States Supreme Court decided inChambers v.

This book examines the complex relationships between young masculinities and sexual health within Southern Africa.