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    Royal police ordinances in early modern Sweden : the emergence of voluntaristic understanding of law / by Kotkas, Toomas, 1970-

    Published 2013
    Table of Contents: “…Political theory and police in early modern Sweden -- Royal police ordinances between 1523 and 1611 : enforcement of medieval law -- Royal police ordinances between 1612 and 1718 : making of new law -- Scientification of police: the end of the broad conception of police -- Conclusions.…”
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    Fatal love : spousal killers, law, and punishment in the late colonial Spanish Atlantic / by Uribe Urán, Victor

    Published 2016
    Table of Contents: “…Access to justice : domestic violence, laws, and procedures -- Innocent infants? : Indians and domestic violence in colonial Mexico -- The king's forgiveness : earthly intercessions and legal culture -- Honor and punishment in late-eighteenth-century Spain -- God's forgiveness : heavenly intercessions -- Dangerous women : gender, ethnicity, and "domestic" disputes in New Granada -- The many shades of pain and punishment in the Spanish Atlantic -- Transition to independence : humanized justice and the reinvention of hegemony and coercion in the Spanish Atlantic.…”
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    Pursuing Johns : Criminal Law Reform, Defending Character, and New York City's Committee of Fourteen, 1920-1930 / by Mackey, Thomas C., 1956-

    Published 2005
    Table of Contents: “…"To live correctly": themes and the significance of character -- "Only the Barbarian waits": New York City's committee of fourteen -- Drifted: feminist reformers and prostitution's changes in the twenties -- "The time has come": vagrancy law, police procedure, and proceeding against the customers -- People v. …”
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    Criminal injustice slaves and free Blacks in Georgia's criminal justice system / by McNair, Glenn, 1962-

    Published 2009
    Table of Contents: “…"My Lord, they are stark mad after Negroes" : slavery and the corruption of Georgia's legal culture -- "For the better ordering and governing Negroes" : Blacks and the law -- "Negroes might cut the throats of our people" : Black crime and its causes -- "Some convenient method and form of tryal" : the trial process -- "The slave should look to his master and the courts to avenge his wrongs" : the appellate process -- "May the Lord have mercy on his soul" : punishment.…”
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    Icons of crime fighting relentless pursuers of justice /

    Published 2008
    Subjects: “…Law enforcement United States History.…”
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    True crimes in eighteenth-century China twenty case histories /

    Published 2009
    “…Asian law series ;…”
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    Men of blood violence, manliness and criminal justice in Victorian England / by Wiener, Martin J.

    Published 2004
    Table of Contents: “…1. Violence and Law, Gender and Law -- 2. When Men Killed Men -- 3. …”
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