Serious Crime in Late Seventeenth-Century Scotland

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Serious Crime in Late Seventeenth-Century Scotland is written by Allan Kennedy and published by Edinburgh University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1399533185 (ISBN 10) and 9781399533188 (ISBN 13).

This book explores serious criminality in Scotland between 1660 and c.1700. Through in-depth analysis of the records of the Justiciary Court, Scotland's central criminal jurisdiction, it reconstructs the meaning of 'crime' as understood by seventeenth-century Scots, before moving on to assess patterns of prosecution, the causes of crime, the performance of criminality, and wider response to illegal behaviour, all with a view to reconstructing the social meaning of crime. The result is an unprecedentedly detailed and systematic account of criminal behaviour which adds a completely new perspective to our understanding of early modern Scotland.