ABSTRACT

McLynn provides the first comprehensive view of crime and its consequences in the eighteenth century: why was England notorious for violence? Why did the death penalty prove no deterrent? Was it a crude means of redistributing wealth?

chapter 1|16 pages

London

chapter 2|19 pages

Law Enforcement

chapter 3|20 pages

Homicide

chapter 4|27 pages

Highwaymen

chapter 5|13 pages

Property Crime

chapter 6|20 pages

Women (1)

chapter 7|17 pages

Women (2)

chapter 8|23 pages

Crimes of the Powerful

chapter 9|16 pages

High Treason

chapter 10|30 pages

Smuggling

chapter 11|16 pages

Poaching

chapter 12|24 pages

Rioting

chapter 13|15 pages

Theories on Crime and Punishment

chapter 14|20 pages

Execution

chapter 15|22 pages

Secondary Punishment

chapter 16|21 pages

Crime and Social Change

chapter 17|21 pages

The Impact of War