Serious Crime in Late Seventeenth-Century Scotland

Kennedy, Allan D.

Edinburgh University Press（2025/02発売）

Edinburgh University Press（2025/02発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 256 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781399533164
• DDC分類 941.106

Full Description

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.

Contents

List of Illustrations
Abbreviations and Conventions
Acknowledgements

Introduction: Crime in Early Modern Scotland

Part I. Crime in Context
1. Conceptualising Crime
2. The Matrix of Control
3. Patterns of Prosecution and Punishment

Part II. The Experience of Crime
4. Becoming Criminal
5. Performing Crime
6. Responses and Consequences

Conclusion: The Meaning of Crime in Late-Seventeenth Century Scotland

Bibliography
Index