Fields, Fens and Felonies(English, Paperback, Durston Gregory J.)

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Fields, Fens and Felonies(English, Paperback, Durston Gregory J.) is written by Durston Gregory J. and published by Waterside Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1909976113 (ISBN 10) and 9781909976115 (ISBN 13).

The contents include justices of the peace, policing, crimes, courts and judges as well as such matters as summary trial and disposal, jury trial, execution (and reprieve), a variety of offences including murder (and other homicides), violence and sexual offences, smuggling, poaching, property crimes, riots and disturbances.The book also looks at the various hierarchies that existed whether social, legal, judicial, religious, military or otherwise so as to exert a variety of social controls at a time of relative lawlessness. A fascinating and statistically absorbing account of crimes, responses and penal outcomes of the era.Neither a micro-history in the context of a parish, hundred, or small town nor national account, but a more unusual criminal justice history of a major English region with its own correlation with London and the rest of England in addition to its local differences and 'quirks'.