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The Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales - Volume II: Institution-Building (Paperback)
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The Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales - Volume II: Institution-Building (Paperback)
Series: Government Official History Series
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Volume II of The Official History of Criminal Justice in England
and Wales traces, for the first time, the genesis and early
evolution of two principal institutions in the criminal justice
system, the Crown Court and the Crown Prosecution Service. This
volume examines the origins and shaping of two critical
institutions: the Crown Court, which rose from the ashes of the
Courts of Assize and Quarter Sessions; and the Crown Prosecution
Service which replaced a rather haphazard system of police
prosecuting solicitors. The 1971 Courts Act and the 1985
Prosecution of Offences Act were to reconfigure the architecture of
criminal justice, transforming the procedures by which people were
charged, prosecuted and, in the weightier cases demanding a judge
and jury, tried in the criminal courts of England and Wales. One
stemmed from a crisis in a medieval system of travelling justices
that tried people in the wrong places and for inadequate lengths of
time. The other was precipitated by a scandal in which three men
were wrongly convicted for the murder of a bisexual prostitute.
Theirs is an as yet untold history that can be explored in depth
because it is recent enough, in the words of Harold Wilson, to have
been 'written while the official records could still be
supplemented by reference to the personal recollections of the
public men who were involved'. This book will be of much interest
to students of criminology and British history, politics and law.
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