Markus Eder, Crime and Punishment in the Royal Navy of the Seven Year’s War, 1755-1763
Criminologists, and others, recognise that most crime is a young man’s game. Historians of eighteenth-century England have often remarked on how judges commented that the numbers of offenders brought before them during wartime was significantly lower than in peacetime, and how the population frette...
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Crime, Histoire & Sociétés
2009
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| Online Access: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Summary: | Criminologists, and others, recognise that most crime is a young man’s game. Historians of eighteenth-century England have often remarked on how judges commented that the numbers of offenders brought before them during wartime was significantly lower than in peacetime, and how the population fretted at the end of wars over the return of the demobilised military, trained in the use of arms and brutalised by conflict. Yet if the demands of war temporarily swallowed many of the most criminogeni... |
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