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Criminal Justice in the Old World and the New

  • By:
  • Greg T. Smith
  • Allyson N. May
  • Simon Devereaux

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  • ISBN:0-919584-86-1
  • Price:CAN $25.00
  • Dimensions: 5 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches
  • Pages:308
  • © 2002 Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto. All Rights Reserved.

Abstract

In nine original essays, covering criminal justice administration, pre-trial and trial procedure, the professionalization of medico-legal knowledge, and the cultural, social, and gendered contexts of crime and criminality, the contributors to this volume celebrate the career of John Beattie.

Best -known for his Crime and the Courts in England, 1660-1800 (1986), Beattie has profoundly influenced the study of criminal justice history, both as a scholar and a teacher. The contributors - students, former students, and colleagues - pursue Beattie's commitment to assiduous research and incisive analysis.

While compiled to honour Beattie's contribution to historical scholarship, this volume will have wide appeal, not only to historians, but to criminologists and social scientists interested in the study of crime, justice, and society.

Table of Contents

  • Preface: John Beattie and the Department of History
  • by Michael G. Finlayson
  • Preface: John Beattie and the Centre of Criminology
  • by Anthony N. Doob
  • Introduction
  • by Greg T. Smith
    • Patriarchy, Crime, and the Courts: The Criminality of Women in Late Tudor and Early Stuart England by Peter Lawson
    • Female Servants and Women's Criminality in Early Eighteenth-Century London by Paula Humfrey
    • Pre-Trial Examination in Upper Canada by Susan Lewthwaite
    • Surgeons and Criminal Justice in Eighteenth-Century Newfoundland by Jerry Bannister
    • Halifax Juries in the Eighteenth Century by Jim Phillips
    • Reluctant Advocates: The Legal Profession and the Prisoner's Counsel Act of 1836 by Allyson N. May
    • "That Men May Be Warned": The Legacy of Tutchin's Case by Valerie Frith
    • Making Crime Pay: Motives, Marketing Strategies, and the Printed Literature of Crime in England 1670-1770 by Andrea McKenzie
    • The Criminal Branch of the Home Office 1782-1830 by Simon Devereaux