Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth Century England
By Frank McLynn
Release : 2013-06-17
Genre : History, Books, European History
Kind : ebook
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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?
Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth Century England
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?