Devil Made Me Do It!

Name: Devil Made Me Do It!
Brand: Rowman & Littlefield
SKU: 9780762771653
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Crime And Punishment In Early New England

Autor: Juliet Haines Mofford

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Väzba: Brožovaná

Vydavateľ: Rowman & Littlefield

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Tales of the country's original criminals-and how the courts punished them for their misdeeds Scarle...

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Autor

Juliet Haines Mofford

Jazyk

Angličtina

Väzba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydalo

2011

Stránok

240

EAN

9780762771653

ISBN

0762771658

Enbook ID

09234691

Vydavateľ

Rowman & Littlefield

Hmotnosť

Rozmery

137 x 213 x 18

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Tales of the country's original criminals-and how the courts punished them for their misdeeds Scarlet Letters, wanton dalliances, Sabbathbreaking, and debt: Colonial laws were easily broken and the malefactors who broke them, swiftly punished. How did our ancestors deal with murder and mayhem? How did seventeenth- and eighteenth-century New England communities handle deviants? How have definitions of criminal behavior and its punishment changed over the centuries? What were early prisons like? What were the duties of a turn-key? Find out all this and more in The Devil Made Me Do It. Drawing on early court dockets, diaries, sermons, gaolers' records, and other primary sources, Juliet Haines Mofford investigates historical cases from a time when accused felons often pleaded in their own defense: "The Devil made me do it!" Among the questions that emerge in this fascinating book: Would spinster Sarah Booker be punished today for her 1769 theft of three skeins of linen yarn? Would Joan Andrews still get a T for Theft pinned upon her bodice for cheating a client by placing two stones in the firkin of butter she sold him?

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