Politics of Punishment Revised Edition

About the author
Dedication
Tribute
Preface
Preface to the 1994 issue
Abbreviations
From the reviews of the first issue
	Anglo-Saxon England
		Pagan to Christian
		Vengeance to Compensation
		The King’s Peace
		Communal Courts
		Oaths and Ordeals
		Monarchy and Church
	Saxon Dooms — Our Early Laws
		Written Law
		Powers of Crown and Church
		Ine and Alfred the Great
		Public Law
		Ethelred “The Unready”
		Poacher Turned Gamekeeper
	New Ventures in the Criminal Law
		William the Conqueror
		Anarchy
		Crown versus Church
		The King’s Justice
		Trial by Jury
		Rise of the Legal Profession
		Origin of Justices of the Peace
		Persecution of the Lollards
		Treason
		Other Violent Punishments
		Corruption to Stability
	Royal Power
		Political Control
		Demons
		Torture
		The Star Chamber
		Common Law Punishments
	The Commonwealth
		Penal Law Reform (1649-1660)
	The Restoration
		Significant Changes in the Criminal Law
		The Popish Plot
		Judge Jeffreys
	Glorious Revolution to Repression
		Changing Attitudes to Punishment
		The Whig Supremacy
		John Wilkes
		Prisons
		Beccaria’s Crusade
		The Rights of Man
		Trials of Radicals
		Sir Samuel Romilly
	Towards a Modern Society
		Inspiration of Jeremy Bentham
		Sir Robert Peel
		Juvenile Offenders
		1847 Select Committee
		Government Failure
	Century of Reform
		The Crusade Against the Death Penalty
		Secondary Punishments
		The Hulks
		Transportation
		Imprisonment
		The Rise of the Penitentiary
		Garrotting
		Deodands
		Whipping
	Criminal Incapacity
		Liability
		Infancy
		Madness
		The M’Naghten Rules
		Intoxication
		Necessity
	A Century of Improvement
		The Gladstone Report
		Post-war Reform
		Abolition of Hanging for Murder
		A New Crime
		Improvement
	The Politics of Punishment
		Theories of Punishment
		The Perspective of History
		Leniency in Punishment
		Ethical Issues
		Social Control?
Bibliography
Index
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