1st Edition

Wickedness and Crime Laws of Homicide and Malice

By Penny Crofts Copyright 2014
316 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

The criminal legal system defines and authoritatively enacts the boundaries of permissible and impermissible behaviour, with a focus on that which is prohibited or transgressive. Wickedness and Crime: Laws of Homicide and Malice seeks to expose the ways in which criminal law communicates and sanctions particular models of wickedness. This book illuminates the intimate relationship of crime and... Read more

Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Medieval Malice: disorder and purity of heart; Chapter 3. The poisoned apple of malice; Chapter 4. Stephen’s monstrous malice; Chapter 5. Malevolent outlaw of law; Chapter 6. The negligence of Lavender; Chapter 7. Conclusion

Biography

Penny Crofts