Regional Particularism in Victorian Criminal Justice
In conclusion, though Victorian Britain was rapidly modernizing and losing some of its classism in other areas (such as the extension of voting rights by the mid-nineteenth century to include male workers), Conley maintains that this modernization did not apply to criminal justice enforcement.
Footnotes:
[1] Carolyn A. Conley, The Unwritten Law: Criminal Justice in Victorian Kent, (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991), p. vii.
[2] Ibid., p. 41.
[3] Ibid., p. 15.
[4] Ibid., p. 52.
[5] Ibid., p. 60.
[6] Ibid., pp. 72-3.
[7] Ibid., p. 76.
[8] Ibid., p. 105.
[9] Ibid., p. 136.
[10] Ibid., pp. 166, 170.
[11] Ibid., p. 174.
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