SOLON Law, Crime and History - Volume 01 - 2011: Recent submissions
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Community Mothers or Impromptu Actresses? The Multifaceted Experience of Women in the New York Police Department (1900-1941)
(University of Plymouth, 2011)In the first half of the twentieth century, women police played a small yet active role in the New York Police Department. This article does not intend to narrate the growing presence of policewomen in the department but ... -
The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same: Criminal Law, Down Syndrome, and a Life Worth Living
(University of Plymouth, 2011)This article considers changes in how legal rules reflect attitudes towards children with Down Syndrome between the early 1980s and the present day. In the early 1980s children with Down Syndrome did not have the same ... -
Editorial
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Providentialism, The Pledge and Victorian Hangovers: Investigating Moderate Alcohol Policy in Britain, 1914-1918
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Human Rights and the Use of Law in the Modern State
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Revisiting the Detective Figure in Late Victorian and Edwardian Fiction: A View from the Perspective of Police History
(University of Plymouth, 2011)The mechanics of detection and figures with an investigatory function appeared in fictional texts in Britain before the mid-nineteenth century, but it was approximately from this period onwards that the detective in the ... -
‘The Wolves let loose at Wolverhampton’: A study of the South Staffordshire Election ‘Riots’, May 1835'
(University of Plymouth, 2011)This article is an examination of the circumstances surrounding a series of disturbances which took place in Wolverhampton on 26-29 May 1835 as the result of a hotly contested Parliamentary by-election. It offers a local ... -
Worshipping Bacchus: Prohibition in Savannah, 1899-1922
(University of Plymouth, 2011)‘Worshipping Bacchus: Prohibition in Savannah, 1899-1922’ examines the failure of prohibition at the local level. Savannah’s citizens determined to quench their thirst in defiance of state and subsequently national law. ... -
'Freedom of Expression from the ‘Age of Extremes’ to the ‘Age of Terror’: Reflections on Public Order Law and the Legal Responses to Political and Religious Extremism in 1930s Britain and the Post 9/11
(University of Plymouth, 2011)This paper highlights some of the legal responses to political extremism in the 1930s and the modern challenge of international terrorism and extreme right-wing activism. In particular, it focuses on restrictions to freedom ... -
Ominous Parallels and Optimistic Differences: Opium in China and Afghanistan
(University of Plymouth, 2011)This paper compares two of history's largest producers of opium - Afghanistan (2000-11) and China (1917-35) - to suggest that in both cases production was facilitated by: (1) A lack of central control over the national ...