The Unwritten Law: Criminal Justice in Victorian Kent

by Carolyn A. Conley

Book Overview

The Unwritten Law examines the values and assumptions of mid-Victorian England as revealed in the actual workings of the criminal justice system. The working definitions of criminality and justice were often influenced more by certain tacit assumptions than by the written law. Through a careful study of the ways that the status and circumstances of victims and suspects influenced judicial decisions, Conley provides important new insights into Victorian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195063384
• ISBN13: 9780195063387
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 8.4"