SOLON Law, Crime and History - Volume 03 - 2013https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/handle/10026.1/87752024-03-29T01:24:59Z2024-03-29T01:24:59ZSweet Fanny Adams and Sarah’s Law: The Creation of Rhetorical Shorthand in the Print PressPegg, Samanthahttps://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/handle/10026.1/88762019-05-22T15:27:32Z2013-01-01T00:00:00ZSweet Fanny Adams and Sarah’s Law: The Creation of Rhetorical Shorthand in the Print Press
Pegg, Samantha
This article considers two cases of female child murder, modern and historical, where the victims have become household names. The framing of these cases in the print press is explored in order to address how similar cases resulted in the divergent use of victims’ names and how the names of both victims became emblematic. It is suggested that addressing ideological backdrops, specifically conceptualisations of childhood and how these can be linked to more disparate concerns, is vital in explaining this etymological divergence. More generally, it is suggested that how an episode has been received is reliant upon how these ideological constructs have been exploited by the print press.
2013-01-01T00:00:00ZPolicing Public Houses in Victorian EnglandJennings, Paulhttps://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/handle/10026.1/88752019-05-22T15:27:32Z2013-01-01T00:00:00ZPolicing Public Houses in Victorian England
Jennings, Paul
This article examines the policing of that most important site for leisure and pleasure among the Victorian working-classes – the pub. It begins with an examination of how changes in policing arrangements from the late-eighteenth century into Victoria’s reign both reflected growing societal anxiety over the conduct of drinking places and led to increased action against them. It provides analyses of the overall incidence of prosecution of publicans in the period up to the important licensing legislation of 1869 and 1872. It examines that legislation and its effects and then turns its attention to the offences of permitting drunkenness and serving a drunken person as particularly indicative of the broader question of the conduct of public houses and of customers’ behaviour within them, setting out trends in their prosecution. It then analyses what underlay the trends revealed, taking in the key variables of the law, the practicalities of its enforcement by the police, the attitudes of the magistracy and the actual conduct of individual publicans and drinkers, within the context of economic, social and cultural changes. By the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it is argued, pubs were more orderly places, but the achievement of that end was the product of a much more complex set of variables than simply policing arrangements.
2013-01-01T00:00:00ZLetting Down the Drawbridge: Restoration of the Right to Protest At ParliamentReid, Kironhttps://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/handle/10026.1/88742019-05-22T15:27:32Z2013-01-01T00:00:00ZLetting Down the Drawbridge: Restoration of the Right to Protest At Parliament
Reid, Kiron
This article analyses the history of the prohibition of protests around Parliament under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005. This prohibited any demonstrations of one or more persons within one square kilometre of the Houses of Parliament unless permission had been obtained in writing from the police in advance. This measure both formed part of a pattern of the then Labour Government to restrict protest and increase police powers, and was symbolically important in restricting protest that was directed at politicians at a time when politicians have been very unpopular. The Government of Tony Blair had been embarrassed by a one-man protest by peace campaigner, Brian Haw. In response to sustained defiance, Mr. Blair’s successor as Labour Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, and opposition Conservative and Liberal Democrat MPs pledged to remove the restrictions, but this was not acted on by Parliament until September 2011. This article argues that the original restrictions were unnecessary, and that the much narrower successor provisions could be improved by being drafted more specifically.
2013-01-01T00:00:00ZA History Lesson for David CameronLyon, Annhttps://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/handle/10026.1/88732019-05-22T15:27:32Z2013-01-01T00:00:00ZA History Lesson for David Cameron
Lyon, Ann
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