Crime, Justice and Public Order in Old Regime France - The Senechaussees of Libourne and Bazas, 1696-1789

Informationen zum Autor Multivolume collection by leading authors in the field Zusammenfassung This title, first published in 1984, is a case study of crime and criminal justice in rural, southwestern France in the last century of the Old Regime. Based on extensive research in criminal court records, often the only documentary evidence of the poor and illiterate, the study is a valuable addition both to our knowledge of Old Regime society and to our understanding of its judicial institutions. Rural, Old Regime France seethed with violence. Assault, homicide, and a violence of speech occurred frequently at all levels of society. The author’s finding that royal fiscal and judicial officials were recurring targets of this violence additionally contributes to our understanding of the revolutionary events ending the Old Regime. This system, providing in principle for judicial torture and corporal and capital punishments for relatively minor crimes, has long epitomized much that was wrong with pre-revolutionary France. But the law in principle is not the law in practice, and the author finds that both local and appeals courts seldom decreed such measures. This book will be of interest to students of history and criminology. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations and Note on Spelling; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Libourne and Bazas 2. The Old Regime Criminal Justice System 3. Old Regime Justice in Practice 4. Crimes of Violence 5. Crimes Against Property 6. Crimes Against the Political, Religious and Moral Order; Epilogue; Appendix: The Social Classification Scheme; Bibliography; Index

Product details

• Authors: Julius R. Ruff, Ruff Julius R.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.09.2015
• EAN: 9781138941045
• ISBN: 978-1-138-94104-5
• No. of pages: 242
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: The History of Crime and Punishment; Routledge Library Editions: The History of Crime and Punishment
• Subjects: Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, France, European History, LAW / Criminal Law / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, HISTORY / Europe / France, Criminal law & procedure, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, C 1600 To C 1700, C 1700 To C 1800, Criminal law: procedure and offences