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Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland, 2-volume set

David G. Barrie, Susan Broomhall (Autoren)

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830 Seiten

2014
Ashgate Publishing Limited
978-1-4724-4968-9 (ISBN)

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Taking the form of two companion volumes, Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland represents the first major investigation into the administration, experience, impact and representation of summary justice in Scottish towns, c.1800 to 1892. Each volume explores diverse, but complementary, themes relating to judicial practices, relationships, experiences and discourses through the lens of the same subject matter: the police court. Volume 1, subtitled Magistrates, Media and the Masses, provides an institutional, social and cultural history of the establishment, development and practice of police courts. It explores their rise, purpose and internal workings, and how justice was administered and experienced by those who attended them in a variety of roles. Special attention is given to examining how courtroom discourse was represented in print culture, the role of the media in providing a discursive commentary on summary justice, and the ways in which magistrates and the police engaged in a law and order dialogue with the press. Throughout, consideration is given to uncovering the relationship between magistrates, the courts, the police and the wider community, and to charting the implications of the rise of summary justice and the ’police-man’ state for the urban masses (as evidenced through prosecution, conviction and punishment patterns). Volume 2, subtitled Boundaries, Behaviours and Bodies, examines, through themed case studies, how these civic and judicial institutions shaped conceptual, spatial, temporal and commercial boundaries by regulating every-day activities, pastimes and cultures. As with Volume 1, Boundaries, Behaviours and Bodies is attentive to the relationship between magistrates, the police, the media and the wider community, but here the main focus of analysis is on the role and impact of the police courts, through their practice, on cultural ideas, social behaviours and environments in the nineteenth-century city. By intertwining social, c

David G. Barrie is Associate Professor of British History at The University of Western Australia and Susan Broomhall is Winthrop Professor of Early Modern History at The University of Western Australia.

Contents: Volume 1: Introduction; Evolution and expansion; Dignity and discretion; People’s courts?; Public theatres?; Practices, Patterns and perceptions; Legal, social and cultural convictions; Punishment and protection; Conclusion; Glossary; Select secondary reading; Index. Volume 2: Introduction; Violence and vulnerability; Breeding criminals; Commerce and community; Protecting, purifying and polluting; Time, place and pastimes; Poverty and prostitution; Conclusion; Glossary; Select secondary reading; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.12.2014
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	1950 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4724-4968-1 / 1472449681
ISBN-13	978-1-4724-4968-9 / 9781472449689
Zustand	Neuware