This book is a comparative quantitative analysis of the administration of justice across four English and three Welsh counties between 1760 and 1830. Drawing on a dataset of over 22, 000 indictments, the book explores the similarities and differences between how the so-called Bloody Code was administered between, on the one hand, England and Wales, and, on the other, individual English and Welsh counties.
The book is structured in two sections that trace th...
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Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part One: England.- Chapter 2: The Criminal justice process in Georgian England.- Chapter 3: ‘The lottery of justice’: The Bloody Code in Eng...
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John Walliss is Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Social Sciences at Liverpool Hope University, UK.