Fair and unfair trials in the British Isles, 1800-1940 microhistories of justice and injustice
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction Contextualizing the Unfair Trial in the Age of Public Criticism Anne-Marie Kilday and David Nash -- 1 'A Monstrous Innovation on the Laws': Murder and Double Jeopardy at the Old Bailey H...
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Bloomsbury Academic
2020
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| Zusammenfassung: | Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction Contextualizing the Unfair Trial in the Age of Public Criticism Anne-Marie Kilday and David Nash -- 1 'A Monstrous Innovation on the Laws': Murder and Double Jeopardy at the Old Bailey Heather Shore -- 2 Legislating to Ensure 'Impartial' Justice: Palmer's Act of 1856 Katherine D. Watson -- 3 'All That They Had Heard, All That They Had Read, All That They Had Seen': Questions of Fairness and Justice in the Trial of George Vass Helen Rutherford, Northumbria University and Clare Sandford-Couch, Newcastle University -- 4 The Trials of Peter Barrett: A Microhistory of Dysfunction in the Irish Criminal Justice System Niamh Howlin -- 5 The Maamtrasna Murders: The Trial of Myles Joyce Conor Hanly -- 6 The Bedborough Case, 1898: 'A Curious Gonfalon Round Which to Fight' Lesley A. Hall -- 7 'Circumstances of Unexplained Savagery': The Gilchrist Murder Case and Its Legacy, 1908-1927 Anne-Marie Kilday -- 8 'Police Fiasco', 'The Black Army', 'Devil Dodgers' and 'Humbug': The Apparent 'Inevitably' of Unfair Blasphemy Trials up to 1922 David Nash -- 9 The Bobbed-Haired Bandit and the Smash-and-Grab Raider Alyson Brown -- Bibliography -- Index |
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| Beschreibung: | x, 233 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9781350050945 |