Informal Justice in England and Wales, 1760-1914: The Courts of Popular Opinion

by Stephen Banks

Popular concepts of what was, or should be, contained within the law were often at variance with its formal written content. Throughout the long nineteenth century, communities continued to hold mock courts, stage shaming processions and burn effigies of wrongdoers. The author investigates those justice rituals, the actors, the victims and the offences that occasioned them. He also considers the role such practices played in resistive communities...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843839407
• ISBN13: 9781843839408
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"