SOLON Crimes and Misdemeanours - Volume 1 - 2007
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Unpalatable in Word or Deed: Hostility, Difference and Free Expression
(University of Plymouth, 2007-11)This article conducts a review of the principal tools used in English criminal law, from the early modern period to the present, to impose limits on free expression, particularly the freedom to exhibit hate‘, in pursuit ... -
Deviance and Morals: a study of sixteenth-century Crete under Venetian rule: A first approach
(University of Plymouth, 2007-11)This article examines indicatively offences such as blasphemy, sodomy, adultery and bigamy and the penalties imposed by the Venetian authorities on the island of Crete in sixteenth century. As the sixteenth century was ... -
Child on Child Killing: Societal and Legal Similarities and Dissimiliarities 1840-1890 and 1950-2000
(University of Plymouth, 2007-11)This thesis contributes to research regarding social perceptions and legal responses to child criminality. It challenges existing preconceptions regarding the predictability of moral panic in such cases and the social ... -
Convicted Murderers and the Victorian Press: Condemnation vs. Sympathy
(University of Plymouth, 2007-11)Almost half of those receiving the death sentence in late-Victorian and Edwardian England were reprieved. The process of deciding which murderers were to hang and which were to be spared became an increasingly public one, ... -
Crime, Violence and the Modern State
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'On Historical Contextualisation': Some Further Reflections
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On Historical Contextualisation: Some Critical Socio-Legal Reflections
(University of Plymouth, 2007-03)This article examines the relationship of historico-legal studies to the wider context of socio-legal studies. It issues a challenge to rethink the nature and role of legal history in the light of socio-legal theory and ... -
Undiscovered Country: Towards a History of the Criminal 'Underworld'
(University of Plymouth, 2007-03)The concept of the underworld is a central feature in popular histories of crime and criminal behaviour but one that has tended to be dismissed by academic historians as somewhat nebulous and indefinable. This article ... -
Persistent Offenders in the North West of England, 1880-1940: Some Critical Research Questions
(University of Plymouth, 2007-03)This article examines the concept of the persistent offender as a group within society, and the presumed impact of that discrete group upon society via a case study of offending in Crewe between 1880 and 1940. The findings ...
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