Criminal Law and Colonial Subject (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521522946)

This book explores the relationship of a colonial people with English law and looks at the way in which the practice of law developed among the ordinary population. Paula Jane Byrne traces the boundaries among property, sexuality and violence, drawing from court records, dispositions and proceedings. She asks: What did ordinary people understand by guilt, suspicion, evidence and the term "offense"? She illuminates the values and beliefs of the emerging colonial consciousness and the complexity of power relations in the colony. The book reconstructs the legal process with great tetail and richness and is able to evoke the everyday lives of people in the colonial NSW.

Author: Paula Jane Byrne
ISBN-10: 0521522943
ISBN-13: 9780521522946
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/18/2003
Pages: 316
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.72h x 7.36w x 0.70d