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By Jill Harries

ISBN-10: 0521535328

ISBN-13: 9780521535328

ISBN-10: 0521828201

ISBN-13: 9780521828208

What was once crime in historic Rome? was once it outlined through legislations or social attitudes? How did harm to the person range from offences opposed to the neighborhood as a complete? This 2007 e-book explores competing felony and extra-legal discourses in a couple of components, together with robbery, respectable malpractice, treason, sexual misconduct, crimes of violence, murder, magic and perceptions of deviance. It argues that courtroom perform used to be attentive to social switch, regardless of the ingrained conservatism of the felony culture, and that judges and litigants have been partially accountable for the harsher operation of justice in past due Antiquity. attention is usually given to how attitudes to crime have been formed not just via criminal specialists but in addition through the rhetorical schooling and practices of advocates, and via renowned or even elite indifference to the finer issues of law.

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