Summary Justice in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Southwark (London)
The vast majority of people who encountered the law in eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century England did so at the summary level, the lowest rung of the criminal justice system. This article is an investigation of the proceedings at one magistrates’ court, Southwark Town Hall, in the City of Lon...
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Crime, Histoire & Sociétés
2020
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| Dostęp online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Streszczenie: | The vast majority of people who encountered the law in eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century England did so at the summary level, the lowest rung of the criminal justice system. This article is an investigation of the proceedings at one magistrates’ court, Southwark Town Hall, in the City of London’s borough of Southwark from the 1770s to 1830s. Drawing in particular on the court’s two surviving case registers, as well as prison committal books, newspaper accounts of summary proceedings and parliamentary reports, this article considers how the nature and role of summary justice in Southwark evolved over this period. It focuses especially on two aspects of summary justice that have to date received less detailed attention from historians: the role that gender played in determining outcomes and the use of summary punishment. |
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