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Prosecuting Homicide in Eighteenth-Century Law and Practice - "And Must They All Be Hanged?" (Hardcover)
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Prosecuting Homicide in Eighteenth-Century Law and Practice - "And Must They All Be Hanged?" (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Early Modern History
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This volume uses four case studies, all with strong London
connections, to analyze homicide law and the pardoning process in
eighteenth-century England. Each reveals evidence of how attempts
were made to negotiate a path through the justice system to avoid
conviction, and so avoid a sentence of hanging. This approach
allows a deep examination of the workings of the justice system
using social and cultural history methodologies. The cases explore
wider areas of social and cultural history in the period, such as
the role of policing agents, attitudes towards sexuality and
prostitution, press reporting, and popular conceptions of
"honorable" behavior. They also allow an engagement with what has
been identified as the gradual erosion of individual agency within
the law, and the concomitant rise of the state. Investigating the
nature of the pardoning process shows how important it was to have
"friends in high places," and also uncovers ways in which the legal
system was susceptible to accusations of corruption. Readers will
find an illuminating view of eighteenth-century London through a
legal lens.
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