Preface to the First Edition |
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Preface to the Second Edition |
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List of Journal Abbreviations |
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Chapter One Institutions and Ideas |
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Part 1 Industrialisation 1750-1875 |
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1 | (73) |
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B Economic Growth and Law |
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6 | (4) |
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10 | (8) |
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D Executive Government and Law |
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18 | (13) |
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31 | (27) |
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58 | (6) |
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64 | (10) |
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Part 2 Passing Greatness 1875-1950 |
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74 | (41) |
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74 | (2) |
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B Economic Decline and Law |
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76 | (3) |
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79 | (9) |
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D Executive Government and Law |
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88 | (3) |
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91 | (5) |
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96 | (11) |
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G Ideologies and Democracy |
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107 | (8) |
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115 | (79) |
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Part 1 Agricultural Exploitation 1750-1850 |
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117 | (30) |
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A Strict Settlement of Landed Estates |
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119 | (9) |
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128 | (5) |
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133 | (4) |
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137 | (7) |
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144 | (3) |
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Part 2 Urban Conditions and Land Values 1750-1850 |
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147 | (8) |
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147 | (3) |
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150 | (1) |
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151 | (1) |
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152 | (3) |
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Part 3 Land as an Industrial Resource 1750-1900 |
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155 | (13) |
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155 | (2) |
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B Public Health and Amenity: The Common Law |
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157 | (4) |
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C Control of Land Use: Statutory Authorities |
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161 | (7) |
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Part 4 A Gradual Transformation 1870-1950 |
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168 | (26) |
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A The Attack on Strict Settlements |
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168 | (5) |
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B The Art of Conveyancing |
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173 | (6) |
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179 | (15) |
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Chapter Three Commerce and Industry |
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194 | (79) |
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194 | (26) |
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198 | (9) |
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207 | (4) |
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C After the Judicature Acts |
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211 | (5) |
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D Contract Law and Business Needs |
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216 | (4) |
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Part 2 Debt, Bankruptcy, Insolvency |
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220 | (19) |
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220 | (5) |
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B Bankruptcy and Insolvency |
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225 | (6) |
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231 | (8) |
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Part 3 The Limited Liability Company |
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239 | (18) |
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A Origins and Development, 1700-1830 |
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240 | (6) |
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B Reforming Company Law, 1830-1862 |
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246 | (6) |
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C The Corporate World, 1862-1950 |
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252 | (5) |
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Part 4 Legal Control of Anti-Competitive Activity |
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257 | (8) |
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A Mercantilist Regulation and Its Ending |
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258 | (2) |
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B The Courts and `Unfair' Competition |
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260 | (1) |
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261 | (4) |
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Part 5 Technological Advance and the Patent System |
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265 | (8) |
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A Early Industrialisation |
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266 | (3) |
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B Reform or Abolition of the Patent System? |
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269 | (4) |
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Chapter Four Labour Relations |
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273 | (68) |
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Part 1 Service and Its Regulation 1760-1875 |
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274 | (38) |
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A Labour in Country and Town |
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274 | (4) |
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278 | (12) |
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290 | (8) |
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D Trade Unions and Legality |
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298 | (14) |
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Part 2 Employment 1875-1950 |
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312 | (29) |
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A The Emergence of the New Unionism |
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312 | (12) |
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B State Underpinning: Trade Boards |
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324 | (1) |
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325 | (5) |
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D Labour in the World War Era |
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330 | (11) |
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341 | (47) |
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Part 1 Private Family Law 1750-1850 |
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344 | (17) |
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A Forming a Family: Marriage |
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344 | (3) |
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B Sustaining the Family: Property |
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347 | (4) |
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C Sustaining the Family: Children |
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351 | (4) |
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D Ending the Family: Marriage Breakdown |
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355 | (6) |
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Part 2 New Pressures on Family Law: 1850-1950 |
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361 | (27) |
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A The Movement for Judicial Divorce |
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362 | (3) |
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B Divorce by Judicial Decree |
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365 | (4) |
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C Protection Against Violence |
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369 | (2) |
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D Marriage and Divorce for All? |
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371 | (5) |
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E Married Women's Property |
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376 | (5) |
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F Children: Private Rights |
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381 | (1) |
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G Children: The Underprivileged |
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382 | (6) |
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Chapter Six Poverty and Education |
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388 | (69) |
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Part 1 Destitution in Country and Town 1750-1890 |
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389 | (22) |
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A The Inherited Structure |
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389 | (8) |
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B The Crises of Pauperism |
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397 | (14) |
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Part 2 Schools: Learning and Mass Literacy to 1890 |
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411 | (13) |
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412 | (3) |
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415 | (4) |
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C The Newcastle Commission |
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419 | (2) |
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421 | (3) |
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Part 3 Poor Relief and Its Alternatives |
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424 | (23) |
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424 | (8) |
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B Tribulations of the Inter-War Period |
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432 | (7) |
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C The `Welfare State' Programme |
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439 | (8) |
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Part 4 Education - The Modern Structure |
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447 | (10) |
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447 | (5) |
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452 | (2) |
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454 | (3) |
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457 | (53) |
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Part 1 Compensation by Civil Suits |
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460 | (24) |
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460 | (3) |
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463 | (3) |
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466 | (2) |
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D Contributory Negligence |
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468 | (1) |
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469 | (3) |
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F Voluntary Assumption of Risk |
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472 | (1) |
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473 | (1) |
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474 | (3) |
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477 | (4) |
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J Later Changes in the Common Law |
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481 | (3) |
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Part 2 Planning Against Accidents |
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484 | (7) |
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A Insurance and Limitation of Liability |
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484 | (2) |
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486 | (5) |
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Part 3 Resetting the Victorian Frame |
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491 | (19) |
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491 | (7) |
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498 | (9) |
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507 | (3) |
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510 | (105) |
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Part 1 The Era of the Bloody Code |
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510 | (35) |
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A Reform and Conservation |
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510 | (3) |
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B The Range of Criminal Law |
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513 | (5) |
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C The Amount of Crime and Its Nature |
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518 | (6) |
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524 | (8) |
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E The Punishment of Criminals |
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532 | (6) |
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538 | (4) |
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542 | (1) |
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H Characterising the System |
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543 | (2) |
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Part 2 Criminal Justice Transformed |
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545 | (48) |
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545 | (1) |
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546 | (19) |
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565 | (14) |
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D Criminal Law and Procedure: The Fate of a Utilitarian Ideal |
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579 | (10) |
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589 | (4) |
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Part 3 Into the Twentieth Century |
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593 | (22) |
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593 | (6) |
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B Criminal Law and Procedure |
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599 | (6) |
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C Punishment: New Ventures |
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605 | (10) |
Bibliography and Suggestions for Further Reading |
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Index |
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