What makes one crime more serious than another, and why? This book
investigates the problem of seriousness of offence in English law
from the comparative perspective of biblical law. Burnside takes a
semiotic approach to show how biblical conceptions of seriousness
are synthesised and communicated through various descriptive and
performative registers. Seven case studies show that biblical law
discriminates between the seriousness of different offences and
between the relative seriousness of the same offence when committed
by different people or when performed in different ways. Recurring
elements include location and the offender's social statue. The
closing chapter considers some of the implications for the current
debate about crime and punishment.
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