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Table of Contents - European Criminal Justice History, 500-1900
HISTORY 5525R      European Criminal Justice History, 500-1900
This course will survey European crime, criminal procedure, policing and punishment between 500 and 1900. Particular attention will be given to changing methods of proof (oaths, ordeals, juries); changing type of criminal activity (banditry, vagrancy, witchcraft, professional theft) and changing penal strategies (the stocks, breaking on the wheel, the workhouse, the prison, the penitentiary). English experiences are emphasized.
Faculty: College of Arts & Sciences
Department: History
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