Crime and the law : the social history of crime in Western Europe since 1500 / edited by V.A.C. Gatrell, Bruce Lenman, and Geoffrey Parker.

London : Europa Publications, 1980.

xii, 381 pages ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographic references and index

The state, the community, and the criminal law in early modern Europe / Bruce Lenman and Geoffrey Parker -- Crimen exceptum / Christina Larner -- Crime and punishment in early modern Spain / Michael Weisser -- Enforcing the law in the seventeenth-century English village / J.A. Sharpe -- The courts and the Scottish legal system, 1600-1747 / Stephen J. Davies -- "A new engine of power and authority" / David Philips -- The London garotting panic of 1862 / Jennifer Davis -- Crime and the security of the state / Robert Tombs -- The decline of theft and violence in Victorian and Edwardian England / V.A.C. Gatrell.