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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Crime history"”.
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Criminality of women in the 18th century in the South West of England
… 1: Debates and Developments in the fields of Crime History and Women's History: Frameworks, Methodolozies and Consolidation. This chapter falls into three sections. The first outlines some key issues in Crime History. The second examines the development of women's history and discusses the …
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A study of aspects of crime and distress in seventeenth-century Lancashire
This dissertation examines crime and its relation to economic distress in seventeenth-century Lancashire. It uses evidence drawn from both Lancashire quarter sessions and assize courts. Mainly, however, it concentrates on the quarter sessions evidence. It studies crime at the county, as opposed to …
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Public opinion, crime and the police in Preston, c.1815-1914
… popular recreation and their use of published crime statistics. A number of findings have emerged through the course of this study. From the outset the two main objections noted by Palmer towards the establishment of the new police, namely the fear of a military force and the men being …
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Describing the Relationship Between Psychosocial Distress and Extent of Criminal Justice System Involvement for Men and Women in a Sober Living Environment
… in incarceration, and violent or nonviolent crime history. Results of the first regression analysis revealed that gender, length of current stay in residency at OH, and the interaction between gender and length of current stay in residency at OH significantly accounted for 27.2% of the …
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The Ogress, The Innocent, And The Madman: Narrative and Gender in Child Homicide Trials in New Zealand, 1870-1925
… one of the most perplexing and unimaginable of crimes. This thesis, the first legal-historical investigation into child homicide in New Zealand, seeks to uncover some of the ways that people have ‘imagined’ and made sense of this complex crime in the past. The conclusions emerging from this …