Lawyers, Legislators, and Theorists: Developments in English Criminal Jurisprudence 1800-1957
This
book descibes in detail the development of substantive criminal law
during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The author examines
the forces which shaped criminal jurisprudence throughout the course of
this period, paying particular attention to the activities of
legislatorsand reformers, to parallel developments in the study of
punishment and human psychology, to general social and political changes
and to the growth of an organised police force and its reliance upon
formal rules of proceedure and evidence.
