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Informationen zum Autor Victor Bailey is the Charles W. Battey Distinguished Professor of British History at the University of Kansas, USA Klappentext This set presents the essential issues of crime and punishment in the long nineteenth-century. Through the presentation of primary source documents, it explores the development of a modern pattern of crime and a modern system of penal policy and practice. Zusammenfassung This set presents the essential issues of crime and punishment in the long nineteenth-century. Through the presentation of primary source documents, it explores the development of a modern pattern of crime and a modern system of penal policy and practice. Inhaltsverzeichnis Volume II: Justice, Mercy and Death Part 1. Magistrates and the Sessions’ Courts 1. Charles Cottu, On the Administration of Criminal Justice in England (1822), pp. 24-27; 29-30; 33-35; 37-39. 2. Reginald W. Jeffery, Dyott’s Diary 1781-1845 (1907), vol. 1: 326-7; 332-33; 351; 354-55; 359. Vol. 2: 18-21; 70-71; 95-96; 98-102; 119-20; 172-3; 275-6; 289-91; 298-99. 3. William Hone, The Clerical Magistrate , 1819, a coda to The Political House that Jack Built . 4: John Paget, ‘The London Police Courts’, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine , vol. CXVIII, Oct. 1875, pp. 379-389. Part 2. Judges and the Assize Courts 5. Charles Cottu, On the Administration of Criminal Justice in England (1822), pp. 42-44; 66-69; 87-95; 99; 102-103; 105-7. 6. Old Bailey Sessions Papers , 8 May 1799; murder of Bow Street patrol man. Part 3. Prerogative of Mercy 7: Edmund Burke, ‘Some Thoughts on the Approaching Executions’, Works , vol. V (Boston, 1839), pp. 197-203. 8. Mr. Baron Perryn, mercy, death penalty, 1787: TNA, HO47/6: Judges’ Reports. 9. Sir William Ashurst, mercy, death penalty, 1787: TNA, HO47/6: Judges’ Reports. 10. Sir James Eyre, mercy, death penalty, 1787: TNA, HO47/6: Judges’ Reports. 11. Letters written by Circuit Judges, 1819. Death penalty, mercy: TNA, HO6/4. 12. Letters written by Circuit Judges, 1819. Imprisonment mercy cases: TNA, HO 6/4. 13. Baron Hotham to Lord Auckland, 1800, in J. & Barbara Hammond, The Town Labourer , 1st pub. 1917. 14. Mary Thrale (ed.), The Autobiography of Francis Place (1771-1854), (Cambridge University Press, 1972), pp. 132-135. 15. Old Bailey Sessions Papers , May 1799, case of Matthew Stinson. 16. The Journal of Mrs Arbuthnot (Duke of Wellington’s testimony); and The Greville Diary (Charles Greville): Recorder’s Reports; prerogative of mercy, 1826 and 1829. 17. Edward Law, Lord Ellenborough, A Political Diary 1828-1830 , vol. 1, pp. 154-55; 267-68. 18. Memorandum as to the exercise of the Royal Prerogative of Pardon, 8 May 1874; TNA, HO 45/9362/33391. 19. A.G. Gardiner, The Life of Sir William Harcourt (1923), vol. 1, pp. 399-400. 20. Shane Leslie (compiler), Sir Evelyn Ruggles-Brise (1938): the Lipski case, 1887, pp. 61-63. Part 4. The Doctrine of Maximum Severity 21. Martin Madan, Appendix to "Thoughts on Executive Justice" occasioned by a Charge to the Grand Jury for the County of Surrey, at the Lent Assizes, 1785, by the Hon. Sir Richard Perryn. 22. William Paley, ‘Of Crimes and Punishments’, in The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy (1785), pp. 373-393. 23. Sir Samuel Romilly, Observations on the Criminal Law of England as it Relates to Capital Punishments, And On The Mode In Which It Is Administered (London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1810): substance of a speech delivered in the House of Commons on 9 Feb. 1810, Hansard, vol. 15. Part 5. Public Punishments 24. The Times , 17 November 1786, p. 3: whipping in London; death of offender. 25. ‘Pillory’, Mornin...
