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By Richard Ireland

ISBN-10: 0415501997

ISBN-13: 9780415501996

ISBN-10: 1138288578

ISBN-13: 9781138288577


Land of White Gloves? is an enormous educational research into the historical past of crime and punishment in Wales. starting within the medieval interval whilst the constraints of nation authority fostered a legislations focused on kinship and reimbursement, the examine explores the consequences of the advent of English felony types, culminating within the Acts of Union below Henry VIII. It finds enduring traditions of extra-legal dispute payment rooted within the stipulations of Welsh Society. The examine examines the impression of a starting to be bureaucratic country uniformity within the 19th century and concludes by way of studying the query of even if specified good points are to be present in styles of crime and the responses to it into the 20 th century.



Dealing with concerns as different as drunkenness and prostitution, business unrest and linguistic protests and with punishments starting from social ostracism to execution, the ebook attracts on quite a lot of assets, fundamental and secondary, and insights from anthropology, social and felony heritage. It offers a story which explores the character and improvement of the country, the theoretical and sensible obstacles of the legal legislation and the connection among legislations and the society during which it operates.



The e-book will attract those that desire to learn the relationships among nation keep an eye on and social perform and explores the cloth in an obtainable approach, for you to be either valuable and engaging to these drawn to the heritage of Wales and of the historical past of crime and punishment extra generally.

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