Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth-century England

Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth-century England

by Frank McLynn

392 pages· 1989· ISBN 9780415010146
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McLynn provides the first comprehensive view of crime and its consequences in the eighteenth century: why was England notorious for violence? Why did the death penalty prove no deterrent? Was it a crude means of redistributing wealth?

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