Crime, Law and Popular Culture in Europe, 1500-1900

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Richard McMahon
Routledge, Jun 17, 2013 - History - 288 pages

This book explores the relationship between crime, law and popular culture in Europe from the sixteenth century onwards. How was crime understood and dealt with by ordinary people and to what degree did they resort to or reject the official law and criminal justice system as a means of dealing with different forms of criminal activity?

Overall, the volume will serve to illuminate how experiences of and attitudes to crime and the law may have corresponded or differed in different locations and contexts as well as contributing to a wider understanding of popular culture and consciousness in early modern and modern Europe.

 

Contents

Introduction
1
1 Popular violence and its prosecution in seventeenth and eighteenthcentury France
32
2 The containment of violence in Central European cities 15001800
52
homicide in sixteenth and seventeenthcentury Castile
74
4 Prosecution and public participation the case of early modern Sweden
96
5 Towards a legal anthropology of the early modern Isle of Man
118
the prosecution of homicide in preFamine and Famine Ireland
138
7 Violent crime and the public weal in England 17001900
190
8 Atonement and domestic homicide in late Victorian Scotland
219
9 A second Ireland? Crime and popular culture in nineteenthcentury Wales
239
Index
262
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Richard Mc Mahon is a Research Fellow in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol, UK.

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