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Journal articles on the topic "Crime – Scotland – History"

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Shoemaker, R. B. "Women and Violent Crime in Enlightenment Scotland." English Historical Review CXXIII, no. 503 (August 1, 2008): 1047–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cen223.

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Hurl-Eamon, Jennine. "Women and Violent Crime in Enlightenment Scotland." Social History 34, no. 3 (August 2009): 385. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03071020902982798.

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Kilday, Anne-Marie. "Hell-Raising and Hair-Razing: Violent Robbery in Nineteenth-Century Scotland." Scottish Historical Review 92, no. 2 (October 2013): 255–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/shr.2013.0177.

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This piece investigates trends in criminal prosecutions in nineteenth-century Scotland and considers whether fears of a crime epidemic which were prevalent in England at that time were also relevant in the northern context. Using legal prosecutions for robbery more specifically, the article offers an analysis of indictment trends which suggests the existence of a paradox in Scottish criminality, where in a context of heightened awareness and intensified concern about criminality (especially in relation to violent offences) the incidence of this type of criminality declined after the mid-point of the century. The piece also offers an investigation of the nature and incidence of robbery in Scotland during the nineteenth century and determines how the crime was carried out, by whom, and for what purpose. Comparisons are drawn between the Scottish and English experience of violent theft in order to establish certain distinctive characteristics about how robbery was committed north of the Tweed and to reason why a wider and more detailed analysis of crime in nineteenth-century Scotland is warranted. Finally, the article offers some explanations for the decline in robbery and other violent offences in Scotland after 1850, including reference to the ‘civilising process’ hypothesis which merits closer attention in the context of Scottish criminal history.

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Levack, Brian P. "The Prosecution of Sexual Crimes in Early Eighteenth-Century Scotland." Scottish Historical Review 89, no. 2 (October 2010): 172–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/shr.2010.0204.

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A session of the north circuit held at Perth on 20 May 1709 marked a turning point in the prosecution of sexual crimes in Scotland and a significant change in the administration of Scottish criminal justice. By pardoning more than 300 men and women charged with fornication and adultery, the court brought about the de facto decriminalisation of those crimes in the Scottish secular courts. An incest trial held before the court the same day revealed difficulties in the prosecution of this crime and challenged prevailing male and clerical attitudes towards rape. The proceedings of the court also demonstrated the growing reluctance of Scottish advocates to appeal to biblical authority in criminal prosecutions. The legal developments at Perth were made possible by a bill of indemnity passed by the British parliament in 1708, the abolition of the Scottish privy council in the same year, and the establishment of a comprehensive circuit court system in Scotland.

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Telling, Hannah. "Kilday, Crime in Scotland, 1660–1960: The Violent North?" Scottish Historical Review 99, no. 2 (October 2020): 312–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/shr.2020.0471.

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Mara-McKay, Nico. "Witchcraft Pamphlets at the Dawn of the Scottish Enlightenment." Canadian Journal of History 56, no. 3 (December 1, 2021): 381–401. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/cjh.56-3-2020-0038.

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In 1563, witchcraft was established as a secular crime in Scotland and it remained so until 1736. There were peaks and valleys in the cases that emerged, were prosecuted, were convicted, and where people were executed for the crime of witchcraft, although there was a decline in cases after 1662. The Scottish Enlightenment is characterized as a period of transition and epistemological challenge and it roughly coincides with this decline in Scottish witchcraft cases. This article looks at pamphlets published in the vernacular between 1697 and 1705, either within Scotland or elsewhere, that focused on Scottish witches, witchcraft, or witch hunting. Often written anonymously, these popular pamphlets about witches, witchcraft, and witch trials reveal the tensions at play between various factions and serve as a forum for ongoing debates about what was at stake in local communities: chiefly, the state of one’s soul and the torture and murder of innocents.

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Bartie, A., and L. A. Jackson. "Youth Crime and Preventive Policing in Post-War Scotland (c.1945-71)." Twentieth Century British History 22, no. 1 (September 25, 2010): 79–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwq038.

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Shiels, Robert S. "Reflections on Legal Process and Crime Scene Executions in Nineteenth-Century Scotland." Journal of Scottish Historical Studies 41, no. 2 (November 2021): 134–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jshs.2021.0327.

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Recent analysis of public executions on judicial warrant for the crime of murder in Scotland includes an assertion that the practice of carrying into effect the sentence at the place of the crime ended in 1841. That date may be open to some doubt given the locations of later public executions. Moreover, the legal aspects of these public executions suggest underlying legal requirements, practices and political tensions yet unaccounted for.

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Wormald, Patrick. "Anglo-Saxon Law and Scots Law." Scottish Historical Review 88, no. 2 (October 2009): 192–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/e0036924109000857.

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Patrick Wormald used legal material buried deep in volume i of the Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland to argue for a comparatively maximalist view of early Scottish royal government. The paper compares this Scottish legal material to two Old English codes to show that there existed in Scotland structures of social organisation similar to that in Anglo-Saxon England and a comparable level of royal control over crime by the early eleventh century. The model of a strong judicial regime in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom, put forward fully by Wormald in volume i of The Making of English Law, suggests that the kingdom of the Scots could have been inspired by (or followed a parallel trajectory to) its Anglo-Saxon neighbour in its government's assumption of rights of amendment previously controlled by kin-groups. English influence on Scottish legal and constitutional development can therefore be seen in the tenth and eleventh centuries as much as it can in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The paper also suggests methods of examining the legal material in volume i of the Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland and effectively clears the way for further study of this neglected corpus of evidence.

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Dropuljic, Stephanie. "The Role of Women in Pursuing Scottish Criminal Actions, 1580–1650." Edinburgh Law Review 24, no. 2 (May 2020): 232–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/elr.2020.0628.

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This article examines the role of women in raising criminal actions of homicide before the central criminal court, in early modern Scotland. In doing so, it highlights the two main forms of standing women held; pursing an action for homicide alone and as part of a wider group of kin and family. The evidence presented therein challenges our current understanding of the role of women in the pursuit of crime and contributes to an under-researched area of Scots criminal legal history, gender and the law.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Crime – Scotland – History"

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Kilday, Anne-Marie. "Women and crime in south-west Scotland : a study of the Justiciary Court Records, 1750-1815." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.327453.

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Haider, Suki. "Female petty crime in Dundee, 1865-1925 : alcohol, prostitution and recidivism in a Scottish city." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/4126.

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Late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century Dundee had a strikingly large female workforce and this fact has attracted much scholarly attention. But existing research has not probed the official crime records to determine whether the associated local stereotype of the disorderly mill worker, as a ‘moral blot' on the landscape, is justified. This study looks at female criminality in Dundee 1865–1925. It finds that drunkenness, breach of the peace and theft were the leading female offences and that the women most strongly associated with criminality belonged to the marginalised sections of the working class. Amongst them were the unskilled mill girls prominent in the contemporary discussions, but it was prostitutes and women of ‘No Trade' who appear to have challenged the police most often. They were frequently repeat offenders and consequently this thesis devotes considerable attention to the women entrenched in Dundee's criminal justice system. A pattern noted in the city's recidivism statistics, and often echoed elsewhere, is that the most persistent offenders were women. The fact that men perpetrated the majority of petty crime raises the suspicion that the police statistics capture differential policing of male and female recidivists – an idea that builds upon feminist theory and Howard Taylor's stance on judicial statistics. Yet a detailed study of the archives reveals that there are as many examples of the police treating women fairly as there are of gender-biased law. Indeed, several practical constraints hindered over-zealous policing, one of which was the tendency of the local magistrates to throw out cases against prostitutes and female drunks. This thesis, taking the police and court records as a whole, emphasizes that it was generally pragmatism, rather than prejudice, that guided the sanctioning of female recidivists in Dundee.

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Kleffner, Katherine. "Seething Cauldron of Crime: Criminals and Detectives in Historical and Fictional London." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1429017193.

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FARMER, Lindsay. "The genius of our law : criminal law, tradition and legal order in Scotland, 1747 to the present." Doctoral thesis, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/4620.

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Books on the topic "Crime – Scotland – History"

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Bloody Scotland: Crime in 19th Century Scotland. New York: Black & White Publishing, 2014.

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Kilday, Anne-Marie. Women and violent crime in enlightenment Scotland. Woodbridge, UK: Royal Historical Scoeity/Boydell Press, 2007.

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Kilday, Anne-Marie. Women and violent crime in enlightenment Scotland. Woodbridge, UK: Royal Historical Scoeity/Boydell Press, 2007.

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Bill, Waddell, ed. The Black Museum: Scotland Yard's chamber of crime. London: Harrap, 1987.

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Macdonald, Fiona. You wouldn't want to meet a body snatcher!: Criminals and murderers you'd rather avoid. New York: Franklin Watts, 2009.

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The chieftain: Victorian true crime through the eyes of a Scotland Yard detective. London: History Press, 2011.

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MacLaughlin, Duncan. The filth: The explosive inside story of Scotland Yard's top undercover cop. Edinburgh: Mainstream, 2002.

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Fraser, George MacDonald. The steel bonnets: The story of the Anglo-Scottish Border reivers. London: Collins Harvill, 1989.

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Lock, Joan. Scotland Yard casebook: Making of the CID 1865-1935. London: Robert Hale, 1993.

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Keith, Skinner, ed. The Scotland Yard files. London: Headline, 1992.

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Book chapters on the topic "Crime – Scotland – History"

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Barker, Kim, and Olga Jurasz. "Scotland’s History of Hate: From Public Order to Hate Crime and Back Again." In Palgrave Hate Studies, 111–70. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99375-7_3.

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Knox, W. W. J., and A. McKinlay. "7. Crime, Protest and Policing in Nineteenth- Century Scotland." In A History of Everyday Life in Scotland, 1800 to 1900, 196–224. Edinburgh University Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780748629534-011.

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Deuchar, Ross, Robert McLean, Chris Holligan, and James A. Densley. "Violence and Gang Evolution: Scottish Perspectives." In Gangs, Drugs and Youth Adversity, 17–34. Policy Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529210569.003.0002.

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This chapter critically examines recent statistical trends relating to the general issues of violent criminality and offensive weapon-handling in Scotland. It begins by providing a brief history of street gangs in Scotland's largest city, Glasgow, from their roots in sectarian rivalry to the territorial and recreational focus adopted in the post-industrial era. The chapter then discusses how knife crime has traditionally been a defining feature of street gangs in Glasgow and of street-oriented violence governed by expectations around masculine honour. It also explores insights into the recorded motivations for knife-carrying and gang violence among young people, drawing from previous research as well as the emerging evidence suggesting that gangs may have evolved in the west of Scotland. Finally, the chapter outlines the methodological approaches for this book's study, detailing the sampling methods, access arrangements, geographical locations, ethical protocols, and data analysis methods used.

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McLean, Robert, and James A. Densley. "Conclusion." In Robbery in the Illegal Drugs Trade, 104–12. Policy Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529223910.003.0007.

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This chapter summarizes the findings on robbery in Scotland and situates them within the wider theory and research on robbery. It shares insights from over a decade of empirical research in Glasgow and West Scotland, areas with a long history of gang- and drug-related crime and violence. Through qualitative interviews with (ex-) offenders and practitioners, the chapter explores the nature of robbery within the context of the illicit drugs trade, specifically. It reviews the way in which robbery has evolved and how offenders move through their criminal careers. It also discusses the use of opportunistic violent robbery as a means of acquiring symbolic capital before graduating to more serious and organized robbery ventures.

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Norrie, Kenneth McK. "Child Protection through the Criminal Law." In A History of Scottish Child Protection Law, 85–114. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474444170.003.0004.

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The earliest criminal law dealing with children differently from the adult population was that concerned with sexual offences. This chapter explores the changing policies of the law, from the late 19^th century fear of girls being exposed to immorality and boys being exposed to homosexuality, through the more protective 20^th century legislation which nevertheless hung on to old ideas of immorality and criminality, until the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009 focused almost (but not quite) exclusively on protection from harm and from exploitation. The chapter then turns to the crime of child cruelty or neglect from its earliest manifestation in the common law to its statutory formulation in Prevention of Cruelty to, and Protection of, Children Act 1889, which, re-enacted in 1937, took on a form that, for all intents and purposes, remains to this day. The last part of the chapter explores the legal basis for the power of corporal punishment – the defence previously available to parents, teachers and some others to a charge of assault of a child, known as “reasonable” chastisement. Its gradual abolition from the 1980s to 2019 is described.

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Philo, John-Mark. "Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Livy’s Legendary Rome." In An Ocean Untouched and Untried, 115–41. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198857983.003.0006.

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Chapter 5 explores the influence exerted by Livy on Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Livy’s account of the early, legendary Rome makes itself felt in Macbeth in two distinct but complementary ways. When Hector Boece wrote his national history of Scotland, the Scotorum Historia (1527), he turned to Livy to fill the historical blanks in Scotland’s past. The Macbeth episode was no exception, and Boece modelled his Maccabeus closely on Livy’s Tarquin the Proud. Raphael Holinshed (c.1525–80?), relying on Boece’s Scotorum Historia, as well as its Scots translation by John Bellenden, for his Historie of Scotland, thereby incorporated these distinctly Livian elements into his own account of Macbeth’s reign. Shakespeare used Holinshed as his primary source for Macbeth and thus rehearsed a portrait of tyranny which was ultimately inspired by Livy’s Tarquin. The second means of transmission involves a new source for consideration: William Painter’s Second Tome of the Palace of Pleasure. By translating Livy for his novel the Two Roman Queenes, Painter highlighted the roles played by two female king-makers, Tanaquil and Tullia, in establishing and edifying the Tarquinian dynasty at Rome. It was Painter’s interpretation of Livy, this chapter argues, that alerted Shakespeare to the dramatically satisfying prospect of a wife who not only encourages her husband with an appeal to his masculinity, but readily participates in the crimes she would have her husband commit. There is more of ancient Rome to Shakespeare’s Scottish play, this chapter argues, than first meets the eye.

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Cairney, Paul, and Emily St Denny. "Prevention and Criminal Justice." In Why Isn't Government Policy More Preventive?, 201–20. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198793298.003.0010.

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First, we describe the general issues that governments face when pursuing social and criminal justice policies in a multi-centric environment. Both governments manage the same tensions between relatively punitive and individual versus supportive and population-wide measures to reduce crime, as part of an overall cross-cutting focus on prevention and early intervention. Second, we identify the historic policymaking strategies that UK governments have used to combine social policy and criminal justice policy, often with reference to target populations who—according to several UK ministers—do not pay their fair share to society and do not deserve state help. Third, we show how such trends influence preventive policies in specific areas such as drugs policy, in which the UK still reserves responsibility for drugs classification. Fourth, we use this UK context to identify the extent to which Scottish policy has a greater emphasis of social over criminal justice. To do so, we use the case study of a window of opportunity for a public health approach to serious violence. We focus on Scotland as the relatively innovative government on this issue, to provide context for initial analysis of the UK government’s proposed policy shift.

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