A history of criminal justice in England and Wales / John Hostettler.
"An ideal introduction to the rich history of criminal justice charting all its main developments from the dooms of Anglo-Saxon times to the rise of the Common Law, struggles for political, legislative and judicial ascendency and the formation of the innovative Criminal Justice System of today....
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Hook, Hampshire : Portland, Or. :
Waterside Press ; North American distributor, International Specialised Book Services,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Origins of criminal justice in Anglo-Saxon England
- Saxon dooms : our early laws
- Norman influence and the Angevin legacy
- Criminal law in medieval and early modern England
- Common law in danger
- Commonwealth
- Whig supremacy and adversary trial
- Jury in the eighteenth century
- Punishment and prisons
- Nineteenth-century crime and policing
- Victorian images
- Century of criminal law reform
- Criminal incapacity
- Revolution in procedure
- Early twentieth century
- Improvement after World War II
- Twenty-first century regression?
- Placing criminal justice in perspective.