Crime in Seventeenth-Century England: A County Study

by James Sharpe

Book Overview

The history of crime is an exciting field, forming one aspect of a much wider increase in interest in social history as a whole. This book, based on a detailed study of court records in Essex between 1620 and 1680 combines a detailed study of fluctuations in crime and punishment in a seventeenth-century English county with an analysis of the social processes which lay behind prosecution. In so doing, it marks a major contribution to the field. Dr...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521089476
• ISBN13: 9780521089470
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"