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  • Combating London’s Criminal Class

    A State Divided, 1869-95

    by Matthew Bach ...
    Series series History of Crime, Deviance and Punishment
    The criminal class was seen as a violent, immoral and dissolute sub-section of Victorian London's population. Making their living through crime and openly hostile to society, the lives of these criminals were characterised by drunkenness, theft and brutality. This book explores whether this criminal class did indeed truly exist, and the effectivenessof measures brought against it.Tracing the ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Co-­creating Sustainable Urban Futures

    A Primer on Applying Transition Management in Cities

    Edited by Niki Frantzeskaki, Katharina Hölscher, Matthew Bach, Flor Avelino ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This is a unique book that provides rich knowledge on how to understand and actively contribute to urban sustainability transitions. The book combines theoretical frameworks and tools with practical experiences on transition management as a framework that supports urban planning and governance towards sustainability. The book offers the opportunity to become actively engaged in working towards ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Multilevel Governance and Climate Change

    Insights From Transport Policy

    by Ian Bache, Ian Bartle, Matthew Flinders, Greg Marsden ...
    Based on a major three-year research project, this book explores the various roles of political actors and the policies that deal with the governance of reducing transport-related carbon emissions. Using this clear - and globally crucial - example of climate change governance, the authors are able to tease apart a range of debates and dilemmas and to fully explore the nature, pace and significance ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

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  • The Palace Letters

    The Queen, the governor-general, and the plot to dismiss Gough Whitlam

    by Professor Jenny Hocking ...
    A political betrayal.A constitutional crisis.A hidden correspondence.Gough Whitlam was a progressive prime minister whose reign from 1972 proved tumultuous after 23 years of conservative government in Australia. After a second election victory in May 1974, when a hostile Senate refused to vote on his 1975 budget, the political deadlock that ensued culminated in Whitlam’s unexpected and deeply ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

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  • The Persons Case

    The Origins and Legacy of the Fight for Legal Personhood

    by Robert J. Sharpe, Patricia I. McMahon ...
    On 18 October 1929, John Sankey, England's reform-minded Lord Chancellor, ruled in the Persons case that women were eligible for appointment to Canada's Senate. Initiated by Edmonton judge Emily Murphy and four other activist women, the Persons case challenged the exclusion of women from Canada's upper house and the idea that the meaning of the constitution could not change with time. The Persons ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Young Offenders

    Juvenile Delinquency from 1700 to 2000

    by Pamela Horn ...
    In the early twenty-first century, juvenile crime has become a matter of widespread social and political concern and debate. Young Offenders examines the way in which attitudes - and the law itself - have evolved in dealing with juvenile wrongdoing from the early eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth. By the use of court and prison records, parliamentary papers, newspapers, the writings ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • The Workhouse System 1834-1929

    The History of an English Social Institution

    by M. A. Crowther ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World
    First published in 1981. Professor Crowther traces the history of the workhouse system from the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 to the Local Government Act of 1929.At their outset the large residential institutions were seen by the Poor Law Commissioners as a cure for nearly all social ills. In fact these formidable, impersonal, prison-like buildings – housing all paupers under one roof – became ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Politics of The Rope

    the campaign to abolish capital punishment in Britain 1955-1969

    by Neville Twitchell ...
    This illuminating broad-based political and cultural study presents the efinitive account of the campaign to abolish capital punishment in the period 1955-69. It comprises a work of contemporary history exploring the theme from a number of angles, both pro and contra, which have not been covered so extensively before.It asks why the campaign succeeded when so many others facing lesser ... Read more

    $10.13 USD

  • Lives of the Law

    Selected Essays and Speeches: 2000-2010

    by Tom Bingham ...
    Tom Bingham (1933-2010) was the 'greatest judge of our time' (The Guardian), a towering figure in modern British public life who championed the rule of law and human rights inside and outside the courtroom. Lives of the Law collects Bingham's most important later writings, in which he brings his distinctive, engaging style to tell the story of the diverse lives of the law: its life in government, ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Magdalenes

    Prostitution in the Nineteenth Century

    by Linda Mahood ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
    The nineteenth century witnessed a discursive explosion around the subject of sex. Historical evidence indicates that the sexual behaviour which had always been punishable began to be spoken of, regulated, and policed in new ways. Prostitutes were no longer dragged through the town, dunked in lakes, whipped and branded. Medieval forms of punishment shifted from the emphasis on punishing the body ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Policing: A short history

    by Philip Rawlings ...
    This book provides an overview of the history of policing in the UK. Its primary aim is to investigate the shifting nature of policing over time, and to provide a historical foundation to today's debates. Policing: a short history moves away from a focus on the origins of the 'new police', and concentrates rather on broader (but much neglected) patterns of policing. How was there a shift from ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Law and Government in England during the Long Eighteenth Century

    From Consent to Command

    by D. Lemmings ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Over the long eighteenth century English governance was transformed by large adjustments to the legal instruments and processes of power. This book documents and analyzes these shifts and focuses upon the changing relations between legal authority and the English people. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD