Serious Crime in Late Seventeenth-Century Scotland (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781399533164)

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.

Author: Allan D. Kennedy
ISBN-10: 1399533169
ISBN-13: 9781399533164
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/28/2025
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d