SOLON Crimes and Misdemeanours: Deviance and the Law in Historical Perspective: Recent submissions
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Samuel Holberry: Chartist Conspirator or Victim of a State Conspiracy
(University of Plymouth, 2009-03)In January 1840, Samuel Holberry a Sheffield Chartist, was committed to trial at Sheffield Assizes for seditious conspiracy. A critical examination of the evidence presented at the committal hearing and subsequent Assize ... -
Ethics and Vulnerability in Street Prostitution; An Argument in Favour of Managed Zones
(University of Plymouth, 2009-03)This article draws upon the work of Judith Butler, in particular her approach to ethics and the concepts of vulnerability and 'liveable lives,' in order to provide a critical analysis of reform proposals contained in the ... -
Who are You? We have Ways of Finding Out! Tracing the Police Development of Offender Identification Techniques in the Late Nineteenth Century
(University of Plymouth, 2009-03)From the very beginning of modern policing there were a number of problems; not the least of these was the difficulty that the police had in identifying those they had arrested. This was important for a number of reasons ... -
Resolution through Devolution: Policing, Youth Justice and Imprisonment in Wales
(University of Plymouth, 2009-03)Criminal justice was not devolved to the Welsh Assembly but the process of devolution has resulted in de facto differences emerging between England and Wales. In the previous edition of this journal, Jackie Jones argued ... -
Crime Violence and the Modern State II May 2009, Herzen State Pedagogical University, St Petersburg, ' Blame, Shame and Culpability'
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British Legal History Conference July 2009, University of Exeter, ‘Making Legal History: Methodologies, Sources and Substance’
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Reasons to be Sceptical: A 'Response to the Next Stage of devolution
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On Historical Contextualisation: Some Critical Socio-Legal Reflections
(University of Plymouth, 2007-03)This article examines the relationship of historico-legal studies to the wider context of socio-legal studies. It issues a challenge to rethink the nature and role of legal history in the light of socio-legal theory and ... -
Undiscovered Country: Towards a History of the Criminal 'Underworld'
(University of Plymouth, 2007-03)The concept of the underworld is a central feature in popular histories of crime and criminal behaviour but one that has tended to be dismissed by academic historians as somewhat nebulous and indefinable. This article ... -
Persistent Offenders in the North West of England, 1880-1940: Some Critical Research Questions
(University of Plymouth, 2007-03)This article examines the concept of the persistent offender as a group within society, and the presumed impact of that discrete group upon society via a case study of offending in Crewe between 1880 and 1940. The findings ...