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English Criminal Justice in the 19th Century (Hardcover)
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English Criminal Justice in the 19th Century (Hardcover)
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While it is easy to assume that the system of criminal justice in
nineteenth-century England was not unlike the modern one, in many
ways it was very different, particularly before the series of
Victorian reforms that gradually codified a system dependent on
judge-made precedent. In the first half of the century capital
cases often tried almost summarily, with the accused not being
adequately represented and without a system of appeal. There were
also fundamental differences in procedure and in the rules of
evidence, as indeed there were in attitudes towards crime and
criminals. David Bentley has provided an account of the
nineteenth-century criminal justice system as a whole, from the
crimes committed and the classification of offences to the
different courts and their procedure. He describes the stages of
criminal prosecution -- committal, indictment, trial, verdict and
punishment -- and the judges, lawyers and juries, highlighting
significant changes in the rules of evidence during the century. He
looks at the reform of the old system and assesses how far it was
brought about by lawyers themselves and how far by external forces.
Finally, he considers the fairness of the system, both as seen by
contemporaries and in modern terms.
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