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Jailbirds In Mid-Victorian Halifax, Judith Fingard Oct 1984

Jailbirds In Mid-Victorian Halifax, Judith Fingard

Dalhousie Law Journal

The social history of crime and criminal justice in the nineteenth century has recently tended to emphasize two themes: first, attitudes towards crime and punishment, and the administrative reforms of institutions which grew out of those attitudes; second, the nature of criminality, particularly of serious crime and long-term trends, as revealed in case studies of offences in particular localities, including computer-based, statistical profiles of criminal populations. Both these approaches have their strengths, but it must be recognized that they are heavily weighted in favour of the theoretical, the institutional, and the statistical; they are also predominantly concerned with the view …


Criminal Justice In Colonial America, 1606-1660, Michigan Law Review Feb 1984

Criminal Justice In Colonial America, 1606-1660, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Criminal Justice in Colonial America, 1606-1660 by Bradley Chapin


Court Reform From Bail To Jail, Wade H. Mccree Jr. Feb 1984

Court Reform From Bail To Jail, Wade H. Mccree Jr.

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Court Reform on Trial: Why Simple Solutions Fail by Malcolm M. Feeley


Tightening The Reins Of Justice In America: A Comparative Analysis Of The Criminal Jury I England And The United States, Michigan Law Review Feb 1984

Tightening The Reins Of Justice In America: A Comparative Analysis Of The Criminal Jury I England And The United States, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Tightening the Reins of Justice in America: A Comparative Analysis of the Criminal Jury I England and the United States by Michael H. Graham


Ethics, Public Policy And Criminal Justice, Michigan Law Review Feb 1984

Ethics, Public Policy And Criminal Justice, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Ethics, Public Policy and Criminal Justice by Frederick Elliston and Norman Bowie


Organised Resistance, Terrorism And Criminality In Ireland: The State's Construction Of The Control Equation, Mark Findlay Jan 1984

Organised Resistance, Terrorism And Criminality In Ireland: The State's Construction Of The Control Equation, Mark Findlay

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

Despite the reality of partition that created "two Irelands," comparative analysis of the state's reactions to terrorism in the Province and in the Republic is rare. The struggle over reunification, which permeates society on both sides of the border, is usually viewed by the populist press not from the Irish viewpoint, but rather from the perspective of the British government. Given this bias, organized resistance -- most notably in the North of Ireland -- is represented as an assault on a majority-supported state. Because the legitimacy of the state under attack is rarely questioned, and the motivations for the resistance …


Book Review, Mark J. Loewenstein Jan 1984

Book Review, Mark J. Loewenstein

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