What was crime in ancient Rome? Was it defined by law or social
attitudes? How did damage to the individual differ from offences
against the community as a whole? This book explores competing
legal and extra-legal discourses in a number of areas, including
theft, official malpractice, treason, sexual misconduct, crimes of
violence, homicide, magic and perceptions of deviance. It argues
that court practice was responsive to social change, despite the
ingrained conservatism of the legal tradition, and that judges and
litigants were in part responsible for the harsher operation of
justice in Late Antiquity. Consideration is also given to how
attitudes to crime were shaped not only by legal experts but also
by the rhetorical education and practices of advocates, and by
popular and even elite indifference to the finer points of law.
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