SOLON Law, Crime and History (previously SOLON Crimes and Misdemeanours: Deviance and the Law in Historical Perspective)
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Although Crown Office is central to the Scottish criminal justice system there has been little modern study of the history of the department and no attempt to locate it within the Scottish constitutional arrangements. Consideration is given here to the evolution of the administrative headquarters of the public prosecution system from the mid-Victorian era when great cohesion was brought to the system through to the statutory intervention of 1927 that consolidated the independent position of the local public prosecutor albeit subject to Crown Office direction.
Publication Date
2018-01-01
Publication Title
SOLON Law, Crime and History
Volume
8
Issue
1
First Page
126
Last Page
144
ISSN
2045-9238
Deposit Date
June 2016
Embargo Period
2024-10-29
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Shiels, Robert S.
(2018)
"The Emerging Authority of Crown Office in the Imperial Age: A Discussion Paper,"
SOLON Law, Crime and History (previously SOLON Crimes and Misdemeanours: Deviance and the Law in Historical Perspective): Vol. 8:
Iss.
1, Article 5.
Available at:
https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/solon/vol8/iss1/5