SOLON Crimes and Misdemeanours: Deviance and the Law in Historical Perspective: Recent submissions
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'Mony Utheris Divars Odious Crymes’: Women, Petty Crime and Power in Later Sixteenth Century Aberdeen
(University of Plymouth, 2010-03)This article examines the nature of petty crimes committed by sixteenth century Aberdonian women and the impact they had on burgh society. The evidence presented here challenges the notion that the burgh court charged ... -
Negotiating Responsibility: Ideas of Protecting and Disciplining the Child in London Schools 1908 and 1918
(University of Plymouth, 2009-11)This article aims to contextualise notions of state care and responsibility as set out by the London County Council in their suggested amendments to the 1908 Children’s Bill. It discusses the relationships and environments ... -
Unpalatable in Word or Deed: Hostility, Difference and Free Expression
(University of Plymouth, 2007-11)This article conducts a review of the principal tools used in English criminal law, from the early modern period to the present, to impose limits on free expression, particularly the freedom to exhibit hate‘, in pursuit ... -
Deviance and Morals: a study of sixteenth-century Crete under Venetian rule: A first approach
(University of Plymouth, 2007-11)This article examines indicatively offences such as blasphemy, sodomy, adultery and bigamy and the penalties imposed by the Venetian authorities on the island of Crete in sixteenth century. As the sixteenth century was ... -
Child on Child Killing: Societal and Legal Similarities and Dissimiliarities 1840-1890 and 1950-2000
(University of Plymouth, 2007-11)This thesis contributes to research regarding social perceptions and legal responses to child criminality. It challenges existing preconceptions regarding the predictability of moral panic in such cases and the social ... -
Convicted Murderers and the Victorian Press: Condemnation vs. Sympathy
(University of Plymouth, 2007-11)Almost half of those receiving the death sentence in late-Victorian and Edwardian England were reprieved. The process of deciding which murderers were to hang and which were to be spared became an increasingly public one, ... -
Personal Reflections on the Experiencing the Law Conference
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Crime, Violence and the Modern State
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Experiencing the Law: Activity or Inactivity? The Law's Response to Dealing with Violence (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies 7 December 2007)
(University of Plymouth, 2008-04)