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Informationen zum Autor Peter King was born in Scotland and grew up in Switzerland and England before coming to Canada to study civil engineering at McGill University. He obtained his MBA at Western University and his doctorate from the University of Phoenix at age seventy. He spent his career as a naval officer, a public servant, a consultant to First Nations, and as a professor at the University of Hearst. For fifteen years he was a professor at the Beijing University of Technology. He has competed and coached in fencing, rowing, and cross-country skiing. He was also an international umpire refereeing at the world rowing championships. He has been recognized by federal, provincial, and municipal governments in Canada and by the City of Beijing in China. He has published two mystery novels. a history of rowing, several academic papers. This is his first poetry collection. Klappentext Study of the making of law in England in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Zusammenfassung How was law made in England in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Peter King argues that parliament and the Westminster courts played a less important role in the process of law making than is usually assumed. Justice was often remade from the margins by magistrates and judges. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Shaping and remaking justice from the margins: the courts, the law and patterns of lawbreaking 1750-1840; Part I. Juveniles: 2. The rise of juvenile delinquency in England 1780-1840: changing patterns of perception and prosecution; 3. The punishment of juvenile offenders in the English Courts 1780-1830: changing attitudes and policies; 4. The making of the reformatory: the development of informal reformatory sentences for juvenile offenders 1780-1830; Part II. Gender: 5. Female offenders, work and lifecycle change in late eighteenth-century London; 6. Gender, crime and justice in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century England; 7. Gender and recorded crime. The impact of female offenders in England and Wales 1750-1850; Part III. Non-Lethal Violence: 8. Punishing assault: the transformation of attitudes in the English courts; 9. Changing attitudes to violence in the Cornish courts 1730-1830; Part IV. The Attack on Customary Rights: 10. Customary right and women's earnings: the importance of gleaning to the rural labouring poor 1750-1850; 11. Legal change, customary right and social conflict in late eighteenth-century England: the origins of the great gleaning case of 1788; 12. Gleaners, farmers and the failure of legal sanctions in England 1750-1850....
