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Informal Justice in England and Wales, 1760-1914 - The Courts of Popular Opinion (Hardcover)
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Informal Justice in England and Wales, 1760-1914 - The Courts of Popular Opinion (Hardcover)
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A study of law, wrongdoing and justice as conceived in the minds of
the ordinary people of England and Wales from the later eighteenth
century to the First World War. Shortlisted for the 2015 Katharine
Briggs Award This is a study of law, wrongdoing and justice as
conceived in the minds of the ordinary people of England and Wales
from the later eighteenth century to the First World War. Official
justice was to become increasingly centralised with declining
traditional courts, emerging professional policing and a new prison
estate. However, popular concepts of what was, or should be,
contained within the law were often at variance with its formal
written content. Communities continued to hold mock courts, stage
shaming processions and burn effigies of wrongdoers. The author
investigates those justice rituals, the actors, the victims andthe
offences that occasioned them. He also considers the role such
practices played in resistive communities trying to preserve their
identity and assert their independence. Finally, whilst documenting
the decline of popular justice traditions this book demonstrates
that they were nevertheless important in bequeathing a powerful set
of symbols and practices to the nascent labour movement. This book
will be of interest to scholars and students of legalhistory and
criminal justice as well as social and cultural history in what
could be considered a very long nineteenth century. Stephen Banks
is an associate professor in criminal law, criminal justice and
legal historyat the University of Reading, co-director of the Forum
for Legal and Historical Research and author of A Polite Exchange
of Bullets: The Duel and the English Gentleman, 1750-1850 (The
Boydell Press, 2010).
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